by Julie Turner | Dec 7, 2023 | What's Happening
Daily acts of kindness help us to keep our focus on God and away from the selfish tendency to hoard and think only about our own needs. Yesterday, we talked about a ‘giveaway Advent calendar’ to help our local Salvation Army food bank and to encourage generosity, but...
by Julie Turner | Dec 6, 2023 | What's Happening
Today is St Nicholas’ Day. St Nicholas is the patron saint of sailors, merchants, pawnbrokers, repenting thieves and children. He is also the patron saint of Russia and Greece, and such cities as Liverpool, Aberdeen and Galway, and is also popularly known as Santa...
by Julie Turner | Dec 5, 2023 | What's Happening
The Christmas story is all about God interrupting people. He sent angels to interrupt and disrupt ordinary lives: first of all, Zechariah in the temple (taking so long to perform his duties as a result that people wondered what was going on!), then Mary (given the...
by Julie Turner | Dec 4, 2023 | What's Happening
How do we react on a Monday morning, compared to a Sunday?! Many of us work Mondays to Fridays, and there is often the sense of ‘I don’t like Mondays’ after a weekend of pleasurable activities. Mondays represent the everyday life; there is a popular meme which says a...
by Julie Turner | Dec 3, 2023 | What's Happening
There are many other Christian allusions in the story of “The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe” by C. S. Lewis. The children – who have been crowned Kings and Queens in Narnia after the battle which sees the White Witch defeated – return home to England....
by Julie Turner | Dec 3, 2023 | What's Happening
Tonight in our Little Big Church, we looked at the story of “The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe” by C. S. Lewis. All year, we have focussed on stories, looking at the parables of Jesus, and so it seemed fitting to ponder another story tonight! In...
