by Julie Turner | Apr 1, 2015 | What's Happening
‘Woman, here is your son…’ ‘Here is your mother.’ (John 19:26-27) Death is never merely an abstraction, something to be studied philosophically or with academic interest only. Death touches each one of us at some point in our lives. Those we love and care for...
by Julie Turner | Mar 31, 2015 | What's Happening
As we prepare to celebrate Easter, we are forced to contemplate that the events of this Holy Week were all part of God’s perfect plan, even though things seemed to be going so wrong for Jesus and His disciples. Col 1:19 reveals what God was doing through the...
by Julie Turner | Mar 31, 2015 | What's Happening
‘Father, into Your hands I commit my spirit.’ (Luke 23:46) Jesus has clearly moved from the place of dereliction and forsakenness to the place of childlike trust and simplicity. This is a prayer of security prayed in the most horrendous of circumstances. Many of us...
by Julie Turner | Mar 30, 2015 | What's Happening
‘Today you will be with me in Paradise.’ (Luke 23:43) During Jesus’s lifetime, He told a parable to answer the question ‘Who is my neighbour?’ (Luke 10:29) In that parable of the Good Samaritan, one of the most famous stories He ever told, He demonstrated that we have...
by Julie Turner | Mar 29, 2015 | What's Happening
Garry spoke from Luke 19:28-44 tonight, commenting especially on how the expectations of the majority of the crowds in Israel were not ultimately fulfilled by Jesus. When He entered Jerusalem riding on a donkey, the crowds were convinced that the Messianic prophecy...
by Julie Turner | Mar 29, 2015 | What's Happening
Today being Palm Sunday, Stephen spoke from Matt 21:1-18 this morning. Normally we view Jesus’s triumphal entry into Jerusalem as the crowd’s acknowledgment of Him as King. The celebration element is prevalent in the narrative: we see Jesus riding on a...
