by Julie Turner | May 17, 2020 | What's Happening
Garry continued his series looking at the Sabbath this morning (when we finally managed to overcome various technical problems!) He looked at two similar words which are also connected to praise: shabach & shebach. Shabach means to praise, to celebrate and shout,...
by Julie Turner | May 15, 2020 | What's Happening
Superstition is defined as ‘any belief or practice based upon one’s trust in luck or other irrational, unscientific, or supernatural forces.’ Whilst Christians definitely believe in a supernatural Being (God), there is no place for superstition in our faith. It...
by Julie Turner | May 15, 2020 | What's Happening
Acts 14 reminds us why Paul would in later days write to Timothy that ‘everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.’ (2 Tim 3:12) In Iconium, Paul encountered Jews who refused to believe the gospel and who then stirred up Gentiles,...
by Julie Turner | May 15, 2020 | What's Happening
The ‘March of Progress’ is the name given to an illustration (also called ‘The Road to Homo Sapiens’) which presents 25 million years of human evolution. It was created for the Early Man volume of the Life Nature Library, published in 1965, and is supposed to show us...
by Julie Turner | May 13, 2020 | What's Happening
Waiting is a topic which has long fascinated me, probably because I am so bad at it. A few years ago I wrote that ‘waiting isn’t a waste of time’, but so often, it feels like it. I first encountered Ps 130 over thirty years ago, but I have found I am...
by Julie Turner | May 11, 2020 | What's Happening
In Genesis 32:24-25 we read about Jacob and the angel of God wrestling: ‘So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him till daybreak. When the man saw that he could not overpower him, he touched the socket of Jacob’s hip so that his hip was wrenched as he...
