by Julie Turner | Dec 11, 2013 | What's Happening
When pupils study languages, there are four ‘assessment objectives’ that are tested, largely because there are four main ways in which we absorb and use language: listening, speaking, reading and writing. Jesus is called ‘the Word’ (John 1:1...
by Julie Turner | Dec 10, 2013 | What's Happening
One of the key prophecies we remember at Christmas-time is found in Isaiah 7:14 TNIV: ‘Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel.’ This is quoted in the birth narratives in...
by Julie Turner | Dec 9, 2013 | What's Happening
It never fails to irritate me that so many Christmas songs have banal lyrics and very little to do with the real meaning of Christmas. (I know, I know, bah humbug and all that, but actually, it’s because I love Christmas so much that I get so irritated by the...
by Julie Turner | Dec 9, 2013 | What's Happening
We have been given many reasons to give thanks, but the update on the fundraising for the food bank project provided us all with additional reasons for thankfulness. The church has been able to give a donation of £1000 to the Salvation Army foodbank in Goldthorpe and...
by Julie Turner | Dec 9, 2013 | What's Happening
Ephesians 5:4 in the Message version says, ‘Thanksgiving is our dialect.’ A dialect is ‘a particular form of a language which is peculiar to a specific region or social group’ and involves both specific words (eg a ‘bread roll’ may be called a...
