by Julie Turner | Oct 15, 2017 | What's Happening
Dave spoke this morning on 2 Samuel 6, the passage where David finally brings the ark back to Israel. The ark represented God’s presence and favour and blessing and was supremely important to Israel, but for many years, it had been held in foreign territory (see...
by Julie Turner | Oct 12, 2017 | What's Happening
In concluding our studies on the psalms of thanksgiving, tonight we looked at the importance of story-telling our own lives and in witness. Psalm 107:2 says ‘Let the redeemed of the Lord tell their story’, and it’s vital that we all understand the importance of...
by Julie Turner | Oct 12, 2017 | What's Happening
There is a proverb that says ‘good things come in little packages’, which has often encouraged me since I’m not very tall! As a child, we tend to like the ‘big’ presents at Christmas; as adults, our presents tend to get smaller but cost...
by Julie Turner | Oct 9, 2017 | What's Happening
Living ‘worry-free’ seems a pipe-dream to most of us (a pipe dream is an unrealistic hope or fantasy, a phrase alluding to the strange dreams experienced by smokers of opium pipes in the 18th and 19th centuries.) We spend our lives steeped in worry, to the...
by Julie Turner | Oct 9, 2017 | What's Happening
‘Stop mithering!’ was a phrase I heard frequently in my childhood. For those of you not brought up in the Barnsley area of South Yorkshire, ‘mither’ (with a long ‘i’, as in ‘might’) may not be a familiar word. It means...
by Julie Turner | Oct 8, 2017 | What's Happening
We celebrated two birthdays tonight from the same family.
