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...
by Julie Turner | Mar 6, 2020 | What's Happening
The World Day of Prayer service in Goldthorpe was held at Goldthorpe Parish Church this morning. The service was prepared by Christians from Zimbabwe: The service looked at John 5:2-9 and the healing of a paralysed man. The man had been ill for 38 years and probably...
by Julie Turner | Mar 6, 2020 | What's Happening
Paul urges us to ‘pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests.’ (Eph 6:18) This implies that prayer can be varied in form and that we need to pray always as well as underlining that prayer is a spiritual activity. It’s...
by Julie Turner | Mar 6, 2020 | What's Happening
The rise in suicides shows us clearly the despair many feel in the world; they feel that life is not worth living. Many face situations which they cannot resolve and see no way out of the bottomless pits into which they have fallen. A breakdown in relationships,...
