by Julie Turner | Apr 15, 2018 | What's Happening
We had another April birthday to celebrate last week:
by Julie Turner | Apr 15, 2018 | What's Happening
I have lived abroad for short periods when I was a student and it is exciting to do this, but also daunting. There are so many things that are unfamiliar about living abroad: culture, language, climate, scenery and so on. It’s very easy to feel like an outsider,...
by Julie Turner | Apr 15, 2018 | What's Happening
John Ortberg has written a book called ‘I’d Like You More If You Were More Like Me’, a sentiment that is probably more true than we often care to admit… We all feel safe loving people who are like us because we understand them. We make...
by Julie Turner | Apr 15, 2018 | What's Happening
The love that God wants us to show towards all people is essentially practical (see 1 Jn 3:16-18). It involves practical help: offering food, clothing, and any other practical help that is needed. Loneliness is endemic in our country, even within the church, but God...
by Julie Turner | Apr 15, 2018 | What's Happening
X is not the most popular letter in the English alphabet, and so in our series The A-Z of Christian Faith, looking at the essential ingredients needed in a life of faith, we had to borrow a word from Greek: xenophilia, derived from two words (xenos, a stranger or...
by Julie Turner | Apr 15, 2018 | Uncategorized, What's Happening
Weird Science is a 1995 film in which two teenage boys decide to use science to create the perfect female to compensate for their lack of popularity with the female sex, only to find that after a lightning strike, their computer simulation turns real… We may all...
