by Julie Turner | Nov 29, 2022 | What's Happening
Repetition is seen by most adults as an enemy; variety is the spice of life, we believe. We crave new experiences and rail against the everyday with its monotony and repetition. The French call it ‘metro, boulot, dodo’, the endless cycle of all work and no...
by Julie Turner | Nov 29, 2022 | What's Happening
In classical music, ‘theme and variations’ is a common musical structure, where a composer introduces a melody (often quite a short, simple tune) and then varies it slightly in different ways, often embellishing the original tune to make it more...
by Julie Turner | Nov 29, 2022 | What's Happening
One of the encouraging things about God’s preparation is that we can trace it back hundreds of years before Jesus was actually born! At Christmas time, we often read the prophecies in the Old Testament which speak about Jesus, long before He actually arrived. In...
by Julie Turner | Nov 28, 2022 | What's Happening
The reason we need this period of Advent is so that we understand the enormity of Christmas and can reflect on why God had to send His Son, Jesus, to be the Saviour of the world. Hope can only fully be understood in the context of what it means to have no hope. Right...
by Julie Turner | Nov 27, 2022 | What's Happening
Dave spoke tonight on the subject of hope. Biblical hope is very different to just wishing something will happen; it’s not simply optimism. Hope is based on knowing who God is; knowing that we are in His hands and that He is in control. Jeremiah 29:11 remids us...
by Julie Turner | Nov 27, 2022 | What's Happening
Garry continued his series on Joseph this morning, speaking from Genesis 44:25-45:7 when Joseph’s identity is finally revealed to his family. What his brothers had done to him many years previously had haunted them and they were terrified when they found silver...
