Isleworth Congregational Church
Twickenham Road, Isleworth, Middlesex, TW7 7EU, United Kingdom
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 […]
Read on...by Rev. Antony W. Ball Lk xxiv 41b, NEB Time and again Jesus told His disciples that He would have to suffer and die, and also that He would “rise again” – whatever that meant – on the third day. When it happened they simply didn’t believe it. To be fair to them, when you’ve […]
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 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...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 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 […]
Read on...by Rev. Antony W. Ball …to all who did receive Him, to those who have yielded Him their allegiance, He gave the right to become children of God… Jn i 12 (NEB) Last Wednesday evening, our Church Meeting asked me to write an article for our newsletter on what it means to be a Church […]
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