by Julie Turner | Aug 31, 2016 | What's Happening
Augustine is reputed to have said, ‘Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.’ There is a mystery in this inter-connection between prayer and work which again must be embraced rather than fathomed. We must not...
by Julie Turner | Aug 31, 2016 | What's Happening
There is much in life that is a mystery to me. How electricity works. How a computer works. How pretty much anything mechanical works. How I put two socks into a washing machine and only one seems to come out. How no matter how many lists I write, I still manage to...
by Julie Turner | Aug 28, 2016 | What's Happening
Our first area of maintenance has to be our relationship with God. This requires us to pray, communicating and spending time with God. We need to read the Bible in order to understand what God reveals of Himself and of life; we need to memorise this word too so that...
by Julie Turner | Aug 28, 2016 | What's Happening
Maintenance (the process of preserving a condition, situation or state) is an inevitable requirement in life, for things naturally deteriorate and wear out and need to be maintained if they are to be preserved (the evolutionary theory that things naturally improve or...
by Julie Turner | Aug 28, 2016 | What's Happening
Phil Wickham’s song ‘The Ascension’ looks at our journey towards God: ‘Let us start the ascension Let’s begin the climb Up this holy mountain Where Your glory shines Further up, further in Just to be with You again.’ (‘The Ascension,’ Phil...
by Julie Turner | Aug 28, 2016 | What's Happening
Ps 134 ends with a prayer: ‘may the Lord bless you from Zion, He who is the Maker of heaven and earth.’ (Ps 134:3) The phrase ‘Maker of heaven and earth’ occurs 6 times in the Old Testament, twice more in these psalms of ascent (Ps 121:2, Ps 124:8) It’s a reminder of...
