by Julie Turner | Jul 31, 2022 | What's Happening
Traditionally, we think of miracles as God’s intervention in human history, often in remarkable and sudden form. The dictionary definition of the word ‘miracle’ says a miracle is ‘an extraordinary and welcome event that is not explicable by natural or scientific laws’...
by Julie Turner | Jul 30, 2022 | What's Happening
Yesterday we took 100 people from the Parent & Toddler group families to Gulliver’s Valley near Sheffield, a theme park with something for everyone under 10! It was lovely to have so many families join us (so many we needed to hire 2 coaches!) and to have...
by Julie Turner | Jul 28, 2022 | What's Happening
Tonight’s Bible study looked at the letters to the churches in Smyrna and Pergamum (Revelation 2) and saw that Christ speaks to churches in ways that are intensely relevant to their particular situations. To Smyrna, a city which had been literally destroyed and...
by Julie Turner | Jul 28, 2022 | What's Happening
I have been re-reading one of my favourite books, Eugene Peterson’s “Five Smooth Stones For Pastoral Work”, and looking again at the book of Lamentations, a book written during a period of enormous suffering following the siege of Jerusalem and...
by Julie Turner | Jul 28, 2022 | What's Happening
Psalm 89:15 in the Message version says, ‘blessed are people who know the passwords of praise’, but this can make it sound as though praising God requires great feats of memory which will be beyond most people. The NIV says, ‘blessed are those who...
by Julie Turner | Jul 25, 2022 | What's Happening
Dave spoke last night from Luke 15:11-32, the passage commonly known as the Parable of the Prodigal Son. Yet we have to note the context of this parable, spoken to the teachers of the law and the Pharisees. So often, we focus on the younger son (his defiance,...
