by Julie Turner | Nov 22, 2015 | What's Happening
Mark spoke about the life of Terah at tonight’s meeting. Terah (Abraham’s father) is only mentioned in a few verses in Genesis and in one verse in Joshua and might seem quite an insignificant character compared to others in the Old Testament, but his life...
by Julie Turner | Nov 22, 2015 | What's Happening
Ps 128 is a psalm of blessing. To be blessed, the dictionary says, is to be divinely or supremely favoured; to be fortunate; to be blissfully happy or contented. It’s a good word! There are two Hebrew words translated ‘blessed’ in this psalm. The word used in Ps...
by Julie Turner | Nov 20, 2015 | What's Happening
There are five weeks to Christmas, a reflection that 2015 is whizzing by at a pace that surely must indicate my ageing process…! Bearing that in mind, here are some of the important dates for the church in December. Friday 11th December is the Parent &...
by Julie Turner | Nov 19, 2015 | What's Happening
Chapters like 1 Cor 8 are not at all irrelevant to modern life, even if the practices they discuss are not of paramount importance to us today (having said that, to Jews and Muslims, how animals are butchered is of paramount significance, with kosher and halal meat...
by Julie Turner | Nov 19, 2015 | What's Happening
1 Cor 8 and Rom 14 deal with specific ‘grey areas’ of 1st century life. Eating meat sacrificed to idols and celebrating certain days more than others were areas of concern for Christians getting to grips with how their faith related to their everyday living. The ‘grey...
by Julie Turner | Nov 19, 2015 | What's Happening
Paul has already dealt with the subject of strength and weakness in the early chapters of 1 Corinthians, reminding us in 1 Cor 1:18-25 that God’s weakness is stronger than our strength and His foolishness wiser than our wisdom. In 1 Cor 8 he talks about a ‘weak...
