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We’ve had a blessèd Easter – in most ways. We gathered around our Communion Table (literally!) on the evening of Maundy Thursday to commemorate the Last Supper – a ‘faithful few’ of us (around half a dozen) listened again to some of Jesus’ words spoken on that fateful evening and shared the bread and wine […]
Read on...by Phil Andrews I became a member of Isleworth Congregational Church towards the end of the previous millennium, having reconnected with the Church following a chance encounter with the then Secretary Pat Burch in the spring of 1998. I say “reconnected”, because I had previously been involved with Isleworth Congregational as a teenager back in […]
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 Phil Andrews It’s a shame that the relatively impressive turnout for our Easter Sunday morning services would appear to have triggered an outbreak of worship-fatigue just at the wrong moment, leaving our pews all but deserted by the time the evening had come around. Those who agree with me that Antony’s sermons typically range […]
Read on...by D. James Kennedy (“Message from an Empty Tomb” – CBA) For many centuries the men and women in Europe looked out upon the western sea, what we call the Atlantic Ocean, and they saw the sun coruscating upon the glittering surface of the waters and they wondered. They wondered if there was anything beyond. […]
Read on...by Matt Clifton (Bulletindigest.com) An eye doctor once said that there are more nearsighted people in New York City than any other city. He thought the reason was because people were hemmed in by skyscrapers, and their vision was restricted in such a way that the only opportunity they had for long-range vision was to […]
Read on...For the second time running our Church Meeting in March was sadly inquorate and so, as in February, matters of import to the Church could be discussed but not voted upon, which was a great shame, because there was much on the agenda to be considered. A meeting with a representative of the Congregational Federation […]
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 Caroline Andrews There’s a table in our Quiet Room presented to a Mr. Stonebridge, who was the person ministering at the Church when Dilys Williams, Pat Cole and (later) Trisha Lumm first attended the Church. Dilys and Trisha were both regulars at our Sunday School and Pat Cole was in the Girls’ Life Brigade […]
Read on...by Phil Andrews It has been many years now since Isleworth Congregational Church first launched its website, but the recent improved version provides us with a whole range of opportunities to reach out into the wider community, as well as to interact with one another at our own leisure, outside of organised Church activities. Just […]
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