by Julie Turner | Sep 17, 2023 | What's Happening
This morning Garry spoke from Genesis 49:1-2, 8-12 about the Messianic prophecy given by Jacob. To prophesy is to speak for God (see Numbers 23:11-12) and in these verses, Jacob speaks of how the blessing of Judah will include the Messiah to come. God turns situations...
by Julie Turner | Sep 14, 2023 | What's Happening
In the 1970s there was a TV series called ‘Roots’, which looked at the history of a black American family, set during and after the era of slavery in the USA. The series looks at the journey of one family and their will to survive, and as a historical drama, it does...
by Julie Turner | Sep 14, 2023 | What's Happening
This week we started a new Bible study series looking at the life of David. David is one of the most beloved of Bible characters, probably remembered for two pivotal incidents, one involving a giant named Goliath, the other involving a married woman named Bathsheba,...
by Julie Turner | Sep 13, 2023 | What's Happening
I spent a couple of days away at the beginning of September. The first was spent in Barnard Castle, a beautiful place with (for me) the perfect combination of coffee shops, castle and second-hand bookshop (Book Aid, a Christian charity). After a damp morning there, we...
by Julie Turner | Sep 10, 2023 | What's Happening
Tonight in our series ‘The Miraculous & The Mundane’ we looked at the transition in the New Testament from Jesus doing miracles in the power of God in the gospels and how the lives of ordinary believers were transformed by the arrival of the Holy Spirit on the Day...
