Isleworth Congregational Church
Twickenham Road, Isleworth, Middlesex, TW7 7EU, United Kingdom
by Rev. Antony W. Ball Before writing my newsletter article each month, I routinely check what I wrote that month on the previous three years – trying to avoid, of course, repeating myself too often, which is a particular danger around the time of ‘annual’ events like harvest or advent. Last year I wrote… …to […]
Read on...Those of us who had been fretting over declining attendances were feeling positively reassured when enough members turned out for the July Church Meeting to make a quorum not just under the new rules, but under the old rules too – and this despite the fact that there were still some regular faces missing. It […]
Read on...by. Rev. Antony W. Ball …they were afraid as they entered the cloud, and from it came a voice‘This is my Son, my Chosen; listen to Him.’ Lk ix 34b,35 NEB “Listen to Him.” You can’t get a much simpler instruction than that. Peter, James and John were witnessing an extraordinary event – the transfiguration1. […]
Read on...by Phil Andrews Those of us who attend services at Isleworth Congregational regularly tend to take the format pretty much for granted. But what might the passer-by, who routinely walks past our Church building on a Sunday morning or evening, think is going on behind our austere, imposing portals? Or for that matter what would […]
Read on...by Jeff Asher The history of the church at Troas is sketchy. Very little is known except what we read in Acts 20:7-12. Evidently Paul established this congregation near the end of his third preaching journey (2 Cor. 2:12). At some point they had an evangelist who worked with them by the name of Carpus […]
Read on...If you are reading this on the day of its publication, Sunday 25th June, then there is a very important Church Meeting next Wednesday, June 28th, and all Church Members are asked to make a special effort to attend. All Church Meetings are ‘very important’, of course, but there are several decisions which need to […]
Read on...by Rev. Antony W. Ball Only in Luke’s Gospel do we find the story of Zacchaeus, whom Luke introduces as a “superintendent of taxes and very rich”. Tax collectors were not very popular in those days – that’s probably not changed much over the years – but in New Testament times there were very definite […]
Read on...by Donald A.G. Burling It was the Babylonians, we are told, who first divided the circle into 360 degrees, approximating to the number of days in a solar year. The word approximating illustrates the fact that hardly anything in our world works out exactly right. Our modern sextants, chronometers and other measuring devices help us […]
Read on...by Wayne Greeson One of the greatest gifts God gives us is children. The Bible teaches, “Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, The fruit of the womb is his reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior, So are the children of one’s youth. Happy is the man who has his quiver […]
Read on...We were able to hold Church Meeting in May as under the new rules we were quorate, and that there was not a great deal to discuss was hopefully indicative of an operation that is running smoothly. It is always nice to finish early, notwithstanding the wonderful company. Much of what was discussed had to […]
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