by Julie Turner | May 21, 2021 | Uncategorized, What's Happening
Isaiah 6:9-10 talks about hearing and seeing but not understanding or perceiving, and it is true that the response to hearing and seeing can be vastly different. This was the case in Jesus’ lifetime, when opinion was so sharply divided about His words and...
by Julie Turner | May 16, 2021 | Uncategorized, What's Happening
Slavery and the trafficking of slaves is, alas, a modern problem as much as ever it was. In 2004, 23 cockle pickers drowned in Morecambe Bay; they had been trafficked and lured by the promise of good jobs in Britain, but were forced to work seven days a week for just...
by Julie Turner | Apr 11, 2021 | Uncategorized, What's Happening
On this first Sunday after Easter, Dave spoke from Matt 28:1-10, explaining how the resurrection of Jesus redefines the grave for us. In this passage describing Easter Sunday, we see how the disciples were bewildered and confused after the crucifixion; they had known...
by Julie Turner | Feb 2, 2021 | Uncategorized, What's Happening
In the film ‘A Cure For Wellness’, one of the characters makes the observation, ‘a man cannot unsee the truth. He cannot willingly return to darkness, or go blind once he has the gift of sight, any more than he can be unborn.’ It is true that...
by Julie Turner | Jan 31, 2021 | Uncategorized, What's Happening
Stephen spoke tonight on the vision and challenge of God. The Bible is divided into two testaments, but it speaks really of three times: the beginning (before Christ), the times of Jesus and the end times after His death and resurrection. We are living in those end...
by Julie Turner | Jan 22, 2021 | Uncategorized, What's Happening
The idiom ‘same old, same old’ is used to refer to a situation or someone’s behaviour that remains the same, especially when it is boring or annoying. Life seems to consist of familiar problems which recur over a period of years without any real...
