Isleworth Congregational Church
Twickenham Road, Isleworth, Middlesex, TW7 7EU, United Kingdom
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 […]
Read on...Two contributions this month – as our diaconate has substantially changed. Firstly, from our ‘retiring’ deacons… In many ways this page is going to be a thank you and a welcome. Firstly a thank you to Jemima for representing our church at the Remembrance Sunday service at the Clock Tower on the 14th November. Last […]
Read on...by Phil Andrews As we began to draw the curtains on the extraordinary year that was 2020 we continued to yo-yo between restrictions which prevented us from attending church and restrictions which allowed us to do so but with sundry caveats applied. The Annual Church Meeting which takes place each and every November didn’t take […]
Read on...by Rev. Antony W. Ball Before I retired from teaching, I used occasionally to come across boys who assumed that ‘Jesus’ was his Christian name and ‘Christ’ his surname – those were the days, of course, when ‘Christian name’ was still synonymous with ‘forename’, as it was taken for granted that ‘everybody’ was Christian. “Those […]
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