by Julie Turner | Jul 15, 2022 | What's Happening
A church differs from theme-based clubs in many ways, but the key factor is God’s presence with people. In Revelation 2 and 3, we have 7 letters to churches in Asia, and each letter starts with some aspect of Christ’s presence which was of great relevance...
by Julie Turner | Jul 12, 2022 | What's Happening
‘The Message’ paraphrase of the Bible came out of Eugene Peterson’s frustration that so many ordinary people in the United States of America had no real connection with the Bible. As a pastor of a local church, he longed for people to share his love...
by Julie Turner | Jul 10, 2022 | What's Happening
In Noah, we see one of the first amazing miracles in the Bible: the rescue of Noah and his family from the destruction of the flood. Noah lived in difficult times (Gen 6:5-10) but was able to remain blameless and upright and to find favour with God even in these times...
by Julie Turner | Jul 10, 2022 | What's Happening
Garry spoke this morning from Gen 42:6-17, the part of Joseph’s story where he meets his brother again. It appears from this passage that this meeting triggered in Joseph a memory of his original dreams. Dreams often seem to die, but at this point, Joseph must...
by Julie Turner | Jul 3, 2022 | What's Happening
Garry spoke tonight about the complaining and grumbling of the Israelites during the wilderness wanderings (see Ex 15:24, Ex 16, Numbers 14). They were so miserable they declared they wanted to die in the desert and could only complain about God’s miraculous...
by Julie Turner | Jul 3, 2022 | What's Happening
This morning we continued looking at ‘the miraculous and the mundane’, focussing on the wonderful world God has made for us. So often, we take this for granted, but God is the Maker of heaven and earth (Ps 115:5, Ps 121:2, Ps 124:8, Ps 134:3, Ps 146:6),...
