by Julie Turner | Jul 4, 2024 | What's Happening
I come from a family which valued academic knowledge and education. My mother and aunt were primary school teachers; my parents paid for me to go to a private school from the ages of eleven to eighteen. I was academically intelligent and won a place to Keble College,...
by Julie Turner | Jul 4, 2024 | What's Happening
I love reading the ‘Hairy Maclary’ series of books to my grandchildren. The illustrations of dogs and cats in these books are beautifully detailed, but it is the language which captivates. Written in rhyme, the stories use repetition, alliteration and...
by Julie Turner | Jul 2, 2024 | What's Happening
Apprenticeship – a period of time when a person learns an art, trade or job under the supervision of a skilled worker in that field – seems to me to be one of the best ways to learn. It also seems to be the Biblical way of training leaders. Joshua was...
by Julie Turner | Jul 1, 2024 | What's Happening
When we compose a C. V. or job application, we expect to list our achievements and accomplishments; we aim to impress potential employers with our past prowess. When a person dies, an obituary tends to focus on achievements and accomplishments, defining a...
by Julie Turner | Jun 30, 2024 | What's Happening
Garry spoke tonight about living a wise life (see Eph 5:15-17). It’s easy enough to live like the world, but to go against the flow is much harder, yet this is what is required of believers, because the world is at odds with God. 1 John 5:4 in the Message...
by Julie Turner | Jun 30, 2024 | What's Happening
Dave spoke this morning from Luke 13:10-17, the account of Jesus healing a woman crippled for 18 years and the backlash this provoked because the healing was carried out on the Sabbath. The woman in the incident is not named; in fact, she is defined for us by her...
