by Julie Turner | Jul 7, 2024 | What's Happening
Tonight we looked at the subject of teamwork. God loves us all and wants us to love one another. Often, this will mean helping each other as we realise we can’t do everything on our own. God has put us in the church so that we can work together to let others...
by Julie Turner | Jul 7, 2024 | What's Happening
This morning, we looked at Psalm 51, David’s psalm of repentance after he was confronted (through the prophet Nathan) about his conduct (adultery with Bathsheba and his plotting to kill her husband, Uriah the Hittite, in a futile attempt to conceal his sinful...
by Julie Turner | Jul 7, 2024 | What's Happening
The Eucharist reminds us forcibly of God’s great love for people (John 3:16, 1 John 3:1) It helps us to see people (including ourselves) ‘not through the dirty lens of our own muddled feelings and not through the smudgy window of another’s carping...
by Julie Turner | Jul 6, 2024 | What's Happening
1 Samuel 31 and 2 Samuel 1 both describe the death of Saul and his sons in the battle with the Philistines. The author of the book has been showing us parallel action for some time, switching between Saul and his increasing fear and sense of doom, and David. We last...
by Julie Turner | Jul 4, 2024 | What's Happening
I come from a family which valued academic knowledge and education. My mother and aunt were primary school teachers; my parents paid for me to go to a private school from the ages of eleven to eighteen. I was academically intelligent and won a place to Keble College,...
by Julie Turner | Jul 4, 2024 | What's Happening
I love reading the ‘Hairy Maclary’ series of books to my grandchildren. The illustrations of dogs and cats in these books are beautifully detailed, but it is the language which captivates. Written in rhyme, the stories use repetition, alliteration and...
