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...
by Julie Turner | Aug 28, 2016 | What's Happening
Praise will always be our response when we see God. He’ll always be more than enough. His blessings will always enrich us. He is the God who stoops down to wash our dusty feet (John 13:1-17) and as we see how much He blesses us, we realise that He will never...
by Julie Turner | Aug 28, 2016 | What's Happening
This morning we reached the end of our ‘Songs of Ascent’ series, a series looking at Psalms 120-134. Ps 134 is only a short psalm of 3 verses, but it’s a psalm of praise and blessing. Every year, Jews would travel to Jerusalem to worship God for the three main...
by Julie Turner | Aug 28, 2016 | What's Happening
Matt Redman once said, ‘Worship is the ultimate reality check.’ (see here) So often, we view worship as escapism or something that’s a required but rather boring part of a Sunday service. We may even feel, as C. S. Lewis once did, that the repeated...
