by Julie Turner | Mar 21, 2019 | What's Happening
There are always hard questions surrounding the sovereignty and omniscience of God. Our human, finite minds cannot cope with His infinite nature. Reconciling questions like predestination and human free will will always result in a tension that cannot be fully...
by Julie Turner | Mar 21, 2019 | What's Happening
Waiting seems to us a very passive activity. It seems like inertia. We easily become impatient and want to hurry God along. Scripture is full of the disastrous stories of people who were impatient for God’s promises: Abraham, listening to Sarah and deciding that he...
by Julie Turner | Mar 21, 2019 | What's Happening
In our Bible study this week, we have been looking at Acts 1:12-26. This is the only account we have of the ten days between the ascension of Jesus to heaven and the arrival of the Holy Spirit on the church on the Day of Pentecost, and whilst it is interesting to note...
by Julie Turner | Mar 21, 2019 | What's Happening
I first encountered The Ugly Duckling from a Danny Kaye record. It’s the only one of the stories that I recall hearing in this way, a combination of story and song. I can remember being utterly puzzled by the story, since even at this age I knew that ducklings...
by Julie Turner | Mar 18, 2019 | What's Happening
Goldilocks and the Three Bears is a tale about a little girl who gets lost in a forest and ends up in the home of three bears (traditionally portrayed as Papa Bear, Mama Bear and Baby Bear). She sits at the table (where the chairs are too large, too small and finally...
by Julie Turner | Mar 18, 2019 | What's Happening
As a child, I always loved the story of Rapunzel. I read it at an age when I still had long hair, and this story of an imprisoned princess who lets down her hair to allow access to her presence captivated me. Maybe it was the realisation that my hair would never be as...
