by Julie Turner | Feb 3, 2018 | What's Happening
I am in the middle of house renovations, a process that is deeply disrupting, and I am discovering the importance of preparation to any job. Before the builders came in, we had to clear the house of many of its possessions (stored kindly for us by family and friends)...
by Julie Turner | Jan 28, 2018 | What's Happening
We all prefer message which are encouraging and uplifting, but the gospel deals with, and explains, the reality of a world that is full of darkness. ‘The dark side’ is a reality which we cannot ignore. Jesus is the Light of the world (Jn 8:12), but in this...
by Julie Turner | Jan 28, 2018 | What's Happening
Eph 1:3-14 is a marvellous list of all the spiritual blessings God has already freely given to His people. So often, we struggle to believe God wants to bless us, partly because we have wrong ideas about blessing (assuming these must be only material blessings or...
by Julie Turner | Jan 25, 2018 | What's Happening
Psalm 22 tackles the question of the mystery of suffering as the psalmist cries out, ‘My God, my God, why have You forsaken me?’ (Ps 22:1) Constant crying out initially seems to produce no answer (Ps 22:2); the psalm tackles that sense of abandonment and alienation...
by Julie Turner | Jan 25, 2018 | What's Happening
The Messianic psalms, written hundreds of years before the birth of Jesus Christ, foretell many aspects of His birth, life, ministry, death and resurrection with startling clarity. As with most prophecy, there may well be different layers of meaning (some applicable...
by Julie Turner | Jan 21, 2018 | What's Happening
In the 1960s, the pop group ‘the Batchelors’ had more top ten hits than the Beatles, one of which was the song ‘I Believe’. The lyrics of that song show how people can believe all kinds of different things; in the Karni Mata temple in...
