by Julie Turner | Apr 28, 2019 | What's Happening
J-P spoke tonight on Psalm 121, a favourite psalm of his (and many other people!) This psalm was written in the flyleaf of his first Bible by his grandmother and was particularly relevant to him during childhood hikes in the Drakensberg mountains in his native South...
by Julie Turner | Apr 28, 2019 | What's Happening
Paul speaks also in Eph 6:10-17 about spiritual weapons. All the other items – the belt of truth, the breastplate of righteousness, our feet fitted with readiness from the gospel of peace, the shield of faith and the helmet of salvation – are for our protection, to...
by Julie Turner | Apr 28, 2019 | What's Happening
There are 5 items of armour mentioned in Paul’s list, which refer to the armour worn by Roman soldiers. The belt of truth buckled round our waists (Eph 6:14) The breastplate of righteousness in place (Eph 6:14) feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel...
by Julie Turner | Apr 28, 2019 | What's Happening
In our morning service today we looked at Eph 6:10-17, at the ‘Blessing of the Armour of God.’ In these verses, Paul reminds us that we are all involved in a spiritual battle, contending not against flesh and blood (i.e. people) but against the rulers, authorities and...
by Julie Turner | Apr 28, 2019 | What's Happening
The Bible is full of stories of people who were confronted by God, of people whose lives were radically changed by their encounters with the Holy One. One thing we learn from each of these stories is that God is who He is (see Ex 3) and that His holiness had a...
by Julie Turner | Apr 27, 2019 | What's Happening
One of the questions asked this afternoon was ‘Do I have to become a different person to speak someone else’s language?’ Since we will all naturally speak one love language better than another (some of us need affirmation to feel loved; others need...
