by Julie Turner | Oct 4, 2015 | What's Happening
Angry Birds is a video game franchise created by Finnish computer game developer Rovio Entertainment which involves shooting birds into pigs’ fortresses because the pigs have stolen the birds’ eggs. Tonight at the family service, we played a game that was...
by Julie Turner | Oct 4, 2015 | What's Happening
Tonight’s family service looked at anger management. Anger is an emotion which can cause us a lot of problems, usually because when we are angry, our tongues work faster than our brains! – we say things we easily regret, lashing out in temper and hurting...
by Julie Turner | Oct 4, 2015 | What's Happening
We often define work in terms of its usefulness and also in terms of its worth (how much we earn etc.) It’s worth bearing in mind, however, the Parable of the Vineyard Workers (Matt 20:1-16), a parable that underlines God’s grace. Grace is outrageous,...
by Julie Turner | Oct 4, 2015 | What's Happening
This morning’s sermon looked at Ps 127, a psalm right in the middle of the Psalms of Ascent, which deals with the subject of fruitful work. Work takes up a huge part of our lives, but it’s easy to fall into one of two extremes, characterised by Eugene...
by Julie Turner | Sep 27, 2015 | What's Happening
Mark spoke from Hab 3:17-19 tonight, verses which remind us that praising God does not always take place in circumstances which, at first glance, are conducive to praise! It’s easy for us to associate praise with feelings, but as this passage reminds us, even...
by Julie Turner | Sep 27, 2015 | What's Happening
Dave reminded us this morning that love is an action, not a feeling; a verb, not a noun. We choose to love. Recently, we’ve celebrated a wedding at church and it’s easy to focus on the ‘in love’ feelings associated with a wedding, but we have...
