by Julie Turner | Apr 3, 2016 | What's Happening
Gillian reminded us at the end of the service that just because something is not visible, audible, tangible, touchable or able to be smelled does not mean it doesn’t exist. Air can’t be seen, smelled, heard, tasted or touched, but it still exists! The...
by Julie Turner | Apr 3, 2016 | What's Happening
Mark organised a range of activities for the family service, with the promise of a variety of prizes: Teams had to answer True or False questions about (apparently) foolish things and also get involved in food tasting ‘fools’ with a difference! These...
by Julie Turner | Apr 3, 2016 | What's Happening
Tonight’s family service looked at the subject of ‘fools for Christ’ (bearing in mind 1st April in the UK is known as April Fools’ Day, a chance to play practical jokes on people up to 12 noon!) Dave spoke from 1 Cor 1:18-25, reminding us that...
by Julie Turner | Apr 3, 2016 | What's Happening
Thornton Wilder said ‘Hope is a projection of the imagination; so is despair. Despair all too readily embraces the ills it foresees; hope is an energy and arouses the mind to explore every possibility to combat them…’ As someone who is pessimistic by...
by Julie Turner | Apr 3, 2016 | What's Happening
Ps 130 is a psalm which talks of hoping and waiting. It begins ‘out of the depths I cry to you, Lord’ (Ps 130:1), and there will always be times when we feel out of our depth and in danger of despairing. The key in these times is to keep the channels of...
by Julie Turner | Apr 3, 2016 | What's Happening
Polarity is defined as having to do with the poles (e.g. the North Pole and South Pole), is often connected with the direction of a magnetic or electric field and has a derived meaning from these: ‘the state of having two opposite or contradictory tendencies,...