by Julie Turner | Oct 24, 2013 | What's Happening
We started looking at the first letter of John tonight, studying 1 John 1:1-4 TNIV. Here, we see John firmly establishing Christian doctrine about God. ‘That which was from the beginning’ refers not to the beginning of the world or the beginning of...
by Julie Turner | Oct 24, 2013 | What's Happening
I became a Christian when I was a teenager (and statistically it remains true that the majority of people become Christians before the age of 21, something to bear in mind when we plan our outreaches, perhaps.) Teenagers find it hard to take the ‘long view’ on...
by Julie Turner | Oct 23, 2013 | What's Happening
One of my favourite films is ‘Galaxy Quest’, a comedy which parodies sci-fi films (and the television series ‘Star Trek’ in particular) about a troupe of actors who end up inadvertently defending a group of real aliens against an alien warlord. One of my favourite...
by Julie Turner | Oct 22, 2013 | What's Happening
Grace and mercy are twin sides of a coin. Grace is God’s unmerited favour, the blessings He pours out on us every day which we don’t deserve. Someone has defined grace as ‘getting what we don’t deserve’ and mercy as ‘not getting...
by Julie Turner | Oct 22, 2013 | What's Happening
It took me a long time work out why disobedience is so condemned in the Bible. I come from a background where obedience is the norm and my personality is such that I tend to obey instinctively, mostly because I like pleasing people and want to gain a lot of my...
