Isleworth Congregational Church
Twickenham Road, Isleworth, Middlesex, TW7 7EU, United Kingdom
Attendance at our Easter services was extremely disappointing – especially Maundy Thursday and Good Friday – but a little better on Easter Day. Let’s hope and pray that the spring weather will encourage more people to come to worship with us. At long last! We were finally able, last Wednesday, to hold our first ‘proper’ […]
Read on...by Rev. Antony W. Ball This is an ultra-traditional depiction of the ascension, which St. Luke mentions twice1, but is not really described in scripture. Such artistic representations as this must inevitably be offered in a spirit of “as good a guess as any”, because we are not actually told anything about Jesus’ appearance – […]
Read on...by Donald A.G. Burling My title is borrowed from Phil Andrews’ article in last month’s newsletter. I have never taken the helm of a big ship, but I have had command of a small motor cruiser on the Thames, and even on that there was an appreciable delay between turning the wheel and any change […]
Read on...The February Church Meeting was unfortunately not quorate, which in fact made it not a Church Meeting at all but a “Meeting of Church Members”, the difference being that whilst business could still be discussed and ideas deliberated upon no binding decisions could be taken. It was a shame, because there are so many matters […]
Read on...by Rev. Antony W. Ball Trouble is, we don’t even know for sure who that ‘disciple who had reached the tomb first’ was, we’re just told that ‘he saw and believed’. We think it might have been the apostle John (the writer of the Gospel) who mysteriously refers a couple of times1 to ‘the disciple […]
Read on...by Phil Andrews A visitor to our Church building some months ago tried to explain to us a concept which his own Church had had some success in pursuing. The word he used to describe it was “circles”. The idea was a relatively simple one. We on the inside of the Church are few and […]
Read on...by Phil Andrews Our January Church Meeting attracted the grand total of four people. Three of them were deacons. Even if my tentative suggestion that we reduce the quorum at Church Meetings from eight to six had been put to a vote and carried, we would still have been inquorate in January. February’s showing was […]
Read on...by Donald A.G. Burling Could there be any connection between our April Fool tradition and the festival we call Easter? The idea seems at first thought almost blasphemous. Yet I remember reading somewhere that on April 1st junior clergy used to indulge in foolery that parodied divine service. The name of Easter is supposed to […]
Read on...by Mike Willis, Editor of Truth Magazine One of the earliest heresies in the church was Gnosticism—a system of doctrine which ultimately denied the humanity of Christ. Were it not so serious, one could almost be amused at the distortions which have been preached relative to Jesus Christ. The first century denied His humanity; the […]
Read on...Last Wednesday evening we had to have another ‘Meeting of Church Members’, which is what we call a Church Meeting when too few Members attend to constitute our quorum number of eight – although on this occasion we were only ‘one short’ after a latecomer had arrived straight from work thinking that she might thereby […]
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