by Julie Turner | Mar 9, 2020 | What's Happening
Paul tells us we are children of the light (Eph 5:8, 1 Thess 5:5) and that we do not belong to the darkness or night. Jesus came as light to the world so that we no longer have to live in darkness, but this means constantly embracing the light in order to escape the...
by Julie Turner | Mar 8, 2020 | What's Happening
Garry spoke tonight about the power of the word of God. God acts by speaking; in the beginning, He spoke creation into being (Gen 1:1-3) and so often, Jesus healed and calmed the storm through His words (see Mark 4:38-39, Mark 9:25-27). We need to be careful not to...
by Julie Turner | Mar 8, 2020 | What's Happening
Roger spoke this morning at Cherry Tree Court about the need to be naked before God – not literally, but to approach Him with purity of heart and the confidence that He accepts us through Jesus Christ. In the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve were naked and felt no...
by Julie Turner | Mar 8, 2020 | What's Happening
Our first ‘Take Back The Streets’ prayer meeting took place yesterday, with a good number of people coming to pray either in church or on the streets: Two groups went out to pray on the main road through Goldthorpe, praying for our local shops, primary...
by Julie Turner | Mar 8, 2020 | What's Happening
The pessimist sees the glass as half-empty and can be guaranteed to bring gloom and despondency to any situation. It’s second nature to a pessimist to see the worst in any situation and to believe that the worst will always happen. I struggle with pessimism on a daily...
by Julie Turner | Mar 7, 2020 | What's Happening
Man’s inhumanity to man (and to animals and pretty much everything else) is well catalogued throughout history. The cruelty we can often display to others is not only seen in dictators and megalomaniacs. We often display it in many more subtle ways: the toddler who...
