Isleworth Congregational Church
Twickenham Road, Isleworth, Middlesex, TW7 7EU, United Kingdom
Church Meeting This page is being written post our Church meeting on 23rd February 2022. One topic discussed is as follows: not having the quorum (the necessary number of people present for decisions to be allowed to be made) required for this meeting; we need more people in attendance to be able to put a […]
Read on...by Rev. Antony W. Ball Have you ever been tempted by something you didn’t want? It sounds to me almost a contradiction in terms – the things that tempt us are things we do want, surely? I’ve written before about how the devil is portrayed, so perhaps I should not return to it again, but […]
Read on...by Sr Janet Cooper The following is taken from an article in the Moravian Messenger by Janet Cooper, chair of the Moravian Mission and Society Committee I am sure you have all heard of Fairtrade – it celebrated its 25th anniversary in the UK in 2019. It may be tempting to believe that there is […]
Read on...by Donald A.G. Burling What’s all this about global warming? Might a couple of degrees Celsius not make life a bit more comfortable for us, particularly in winter? The reality of climate change cannot be denied, as we see spring flowers blooming earlier each year. When did we last see a white Christmas? Whether this […]
Read on...Perhaps this is the time to begin to think about the long-term effects of the virus on our Church life. The size of our worshipping congregations has been affected less than might have been feared – indeed the size of our evening congregations seems actually to have increased lately. We could count on the fingers […]
Read on...by Rev. Antony W. Ball Can you name all the people in this little sketch? There’s Mary, Joseph and the Baby Jesus, of course, but how about the other two? It happened forty days after Jesus’ birth, when Jewish parents of a newborn son were supposed to visit the temple to ‘redeem’ their baby boy […]
Read on...Typically this page is produced either in anticipation of Church Meeting at the end of the month, or immediately in its wake. Which of the two it is determines how fresh is the news that it imparts. During the month of December though there is no meeting either to report on or to anticipate. With […]
Read on...by Rev. Antony W. Ball There they are – those three kings on their way to visit the Baby Jesus, to pay homage to Him. We sing about them in our Christmas Carols, and celebrate their arrival on Thursday January 6th – Epiphany – but virtually nothing in that picture agrees with Scripture. They […]
Read on...by Ron Hutchcraft If you’d seen the front lawn of our office, you wouldn’t have been able to tell that there had been a change inside. The only evidence of that was that there was an uncustomary pile of shattered sheetrock in this big lump in the yard. The changes were on the second floor […]
Read on...by Donald A.G. Burling Have you ever seen a picture of an old man with a flowing beard, holding a scythe and an hour glass? This image of “Father Time” used to be quite common, particularly around the New Year. It is in fact derived from representations of the Roman god Saturn, the father god […]
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