Isleworth Congregational Church
Twickenham Road, Isleworth, Middlesex, TW7 7EU, United Kingdom
by Rev. Antony W. Ball . You know that Christmas carol, of course? No…? Oh – perhaps you know it as… Hark! The herald angels sing ‘Glory to the new-born King’ They’re two different versions of the same carol. Charles Wesley wrote it in 1739, and was apparently not too keen on it – he […]
Read on...by Rev. Antony W. Ball As another Remembrance Day approaches, war seems more “real” to me this year. I guess that never a year passes without there’s a war somewhere or other in the world, but often it’s either so far away that it doesn’t seem to affect us personally or so geographically “limited” (like […]
Read on...by Rev. Antony W. Ball In past ages He allowed all nations to go their own way;and yet He has not left you without some clue to His nature,in the kindness He shows:He sends you rain from heaven and crops in their seasons,and gives you food and good cheer in plenty. Acts xiv 16,17 NEB […]
Read on...All things were made by Him;and without Him was not any thing made that was made by Rev. Antony W. Ball Harvest is obviously an appropriate time to praise God and to thank Him for all His goodness to us – and we rightly do that whenever we sing all the traditional harvest hymns, but […]
Read on...by Rev. Antony W. Ball As a retired schoolmaster, September will always also signify, for me at least, the start of a new academic year. Let us remember in our prayers… * The children who will be starting school for the first time, especially any who will find it hard to ‘settle’. * Those, of […]
Read on...(Mk ix 7a NEB) by Rev. Antony W. Ball Clouds usually get a ‘bad press’ in our climate – although maybe the recent heatwave and parched gardens will change that – but in hot, dry climates they are welcomed. To the Israelites clouds have always had an extra significance. Once Moses had led the Israelites […]
Read on...by Rev. Antony W. Ball Job is my, perhaps surprising, choice as a ‘Biblical Hero’ – but he does seem to me to satisfy the heroic criteria listed in the first article of this series. Apart from in the book which bears his name, he’s mentioned only twice in the OT (Ezek 14:14,20), where there […]
Read on...By Rev. Antony W. Ball They drew lots and the lot fell on Matthias,who was then assigned a place among the twelve apostles. Acts i 26, NEB I’ve never “done the lottery” – not because of any high-principled objection to gambling (I’ve occasionally taken part in raffles) but because I’m too ‘careful’ with money (mean?) […]
Read on...by Rev. Antony W. Ball While the day of Pentecost was running its coursethey were all together in one place,when suddenly there came from the sky a noiselike that of a strong driving wind,which filled the whole house where they were sitting.And there appeared to them tongues like flames of fire,dispersed among them and resting […]
Read on...by Rev. Antony W. Ball Most Christians know the story, which John tells in the last chapter of his Gospel, about Jesus inviting seven of His disciples to have breakfast with Him on a beach by the Sea of Tiberias. It was happening some time after the resurrection – they’d seen the risen Jesus a […]
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