by Julie Turner | Dec 3, 2015 | What's Happening
Read Psalm 119:17-24. Countless people read the Bible without ever being transformed by it, because they approach the task with purely human understanding. They put themselves in authority over it, assuming they can read and study it as they would read and study any...
by Julie Turner | Dec 2, 2015 | What's Happening
Read Psalm 119:10-16. Life’s journey is full of pitfalls, ditches we can fall into, things we can stumble over. It’s like walking through a forest full of tree stumps, slippery leaves and hidden snares. The only way to avoid these and stay pure is to live according to...
by Julie Turner | Dec 1, 2015 | What's Happening
Mark’s recent sermon on Terah spoke of the need to keep pressing on in God, not being satisfied with stopping at the halfway point but continuing to journey’s end. I recently heard this song (‘I Will Go’) from Kutless, which seems to me to...
by Julie Turner | Dec 1, 2015 | What's Happening
“I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” (John 16:33) ‘You can’t see a way, then a mountain moves, Skies are lonely grey, then the sun breaks through, When...
by Julie Turner | Dec 1, 2015 | What's Happening
On Sunday we gave the children in church a chocolate advent calendar to help them wait for Christmas, one day (and one chocolate!) at a time. Advent is that period of waiting before Christmas when it’s good to tune our hearts to sing God’s praise and focus our...
by Julie Turner | Nov 29, 2015 | What's Happening
Stephen started tonight’s sermon with a history question, asking who knew the significance of the date 2 June 1953. This was the date of Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation: Tonight’s sermon was about crowns. When we think about crowns, we might think of...
