by Julie Turner | Dec 17, 2017 | What's Happening
One of the activities at our carol service involved ‘pass the cracker’… When the music stopped, the cracker was pulled, and then people had to come out to read the jokes from the cracker: Dan’s was the winning joke: ‘Why did the mechanic...
by Julie Turner | Dec 17, 2017 | What's Happening
The many names of Jesus reflect His many different roles. He is both the sacrificial lamb of God and the Good Shepherd who leads us. He is both Son of God, God with us, God in all His fulness (‘I am’ reflects the name of God given to Moses at the burning...
by Julie Turner | Dec 17, 2017 | What's Happening
Tonight’s carol service looked at the names of Jesus. Naming a child is often one of the first things would-be parents do, being careful not to choose names whose initials spell out embarrassing words or to avoid names that have unpleasant connotations (naming a...
by Julie Turner | Dec 17, 2017 | What's Happening
On two occasions in Luke 2, we read of Mary treasuring the things she had learned (Luke 2:19, 51) and pondering them. There could be no doubt that the angelic visitation announcing that she would become the mother of Jesus must have been an extraordinary experience....
by Julie Turner | Dec 17, 2017 | What's Happening
Acts 4:12 says salvation is found only in Jesus and there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved. Jesus holds a unique place in history (God Almighty entering earth as a human baby) and because of His identity as both fully God and...
by Julie Turner | Dec 17, 2017 | What's Happening
We all worship something or someone. We may not be religious, so the thought of worship may be alien to us, but if worship is defined as our glad response to what we value the most, it is easy to see that worship can be found in everyone’s lives. We may worship money...
