by Julie Turner | Oct 13, 2013 | What's Happening
This morning Stephen showed us a clip from the film ‘Harry Potter & The Philosopher’s Stone’ where the three main protagonists (Harry, Ron & Hermione) take part in a game of chess. Harry Potter & The Philosopher’s Stone chess...
by Julie Turner | Oct 13, 2013 | What's Happening
Yesterday Garry and I attended a training day in Barnsley led by Neil Hudson from the London Institute of Contemporary Christianity, otherwise known as LICC. This organisation, founded by John Stott, seeks to ‘equip Christians and churches for whole-life...
by Julie Turner | Oct 13, 2013 | What's Happening
Throughout history, various parts of the body have been thought to govern moods and emotions. The heart is equated with romantic love, rather than merely being a muscle that pumps blood around the body. Elizabethan doctors believed in the four ‘humours’ which governed...
by Julie Turner | Oct 12, 2013 | What's Happening
I’m a woman. Feelings have always seemed to rule my life! Being a woman is like being on a rollercoaster all the time (probably one reason I refuse to go on rollercoasters!) I am volatile, emotional, tearful, temperamental and often downright irrational. When I was...
by Julie Turner | Oct 11, 2013 | What's Happening
Today’s nugget of truth is connected to yesterday’s musings on waiting. Waiting is hard for us because we are a people ‘who belong to eternity stranded in time.’ (‘Joy In the Journey’, Michael Card) We can’t imagine anything other than time and we don’t really...
by Julie Turner | Oct 10, 2013 | What's Happening
Our new Bible studies will be looking at the letters of John, so tonight was an introduction to these epistles. John, ‘the disciple whom Jesus loved’ (John 13:23 TNIV), wrote these letters to warn against ‘spiritual con artists’ who would have...
