by Julie Turner | Dec 2, 2018 | What's Happening
The opposite of hope is discouragement and despair, and it is so easy for these things to be the predominant factors in our lives. We are discouraged so often because we don’t see what God is doing. We are called to live by faith and not by sight (2 Cor 5:7), but it...
by Julie Turner | Dec 2, 2018 | What's Happening
Dave continued our look at hope this evening, basing his sermon on Is 40:25-31. Hope helps us to cope with all the seasons of our lives. No matter what the season, the single most important attitude we can have is hope, for hope offers us a confidence (Biblical hope...
by Julie Turner | Dec 2, 2018 | What's Happening
Hope is a fuel that keeps people going. The people of God had been fuelled by God’s many promises in the Old Testament and by His acts of deliverance for them. Abraham had been fuelled by the hope of a son: the promise God had given him – ‘a son who is your own flesh...
by Julie Turner | Dec 2, 2018 | What's Happening
Mark spoke this morning on the first Advent theme of hope, using the acrostic below to explain this: Heaven Opened Please Enter The Christian view of hope is not a desperate wish that God would do something, but a sure conviction, a positive action of our mind, that...
by Julie Turner | Dec 2, 2018 | What's Happening
At James’s baptism last night, Garry asked the question ‘What’s your profession?’ Most of us are often introduced to others by our name and profession (‘This is Garry; he’s an engineer’), and so often our identity is bound up...
by Julie Turner | Nov 29, 2018 | What's Happening
All the Advent sheep are now out in shops in Bolton-on-Dearne, Thurnscoe and Goldthorpe and all the leaflets have been distributed to local schools (Robert Ogden school leaflets will be given out early next week.) Please do encourage people to get involved in this...
