This Sunday

This Sunday Paul Meiners will be preaching in the morning on Isaiah 6 and Kurt Peistrup will be preaching in the evening

We have new deacons!

For those of you who weren't here on Sunday our 3 deacon candidates were elected

Summer Reading 3

We've bought 60 copies of 'The House that Jesus built' by Dale Ralph Davis and would love it if the whole church could read it.

It's a great introduction to the church and is only 60 pages.

It is so good we are literally giving it away!!

David Barnes plugs it for us

One Saturday morning a Roman Catholic approached the Book Table in Greenford Broadway. He was a bus driver. He was with a friend who he described as a ‘born again Christian’. He saw our leaflet and asked ‘So you are Presbytrerian? Where are your headquarters? A difficult 5 minutes of explanation followed. How I would have liked to have something like this little book available.

This is a 55 page pocket size introduction to Presbyterian Church life and beliefs, aimed at enquirers and young Christians. The essentials of the Reformed Faith are set out briefly under such headings as ‘The Bible is entirely true’, ‘the Cross is absolutely central’, ‘Grace is utterly incredible’, ‘God is really big’, ‘Disciples are continually secure’, ‘Life is wholly holy’. (I leave it to you to supply the more traditional formulae).

The (Our) church is then described as ‘A Bible church,’ ‘A local church’ followed by a section on what church is and the meaning of ‘Presbyterian’ and ‘Reformed’ and a short section explaining to the reader what he or she needs to do to make it ‘my church’. Including ‘Do I have a ministry here’? Whilst brief, easy to read, this book is never superficial, and the amount of ground covered (and the questions raised) is very large.

A chapter, ‘How Christians live’ deals with the means of grace, the Word, the Sacraments, prayer, worship, and Christian fellowship.

The final chapter briefly explains the gospel and challenges the reader to faith.

It was originally written for a specific local church in the USA. It comes warmly recommended by our friend Willie Phillip, and I would like to add my recommendation. I think it is better for Christians than an enquiring unbeliever, their being more Christian jargon than I would like for the latter, but if a reasonably intelligent friend wanted a short introduction to Presbyterianism I would be more than happy to give it to them.

Evangelists Conference with Tim Keller

Tim Keller will be back in London to speak at the annual evangelists conference on Tuesday 9th October. It's taking place at All Souls and the cost is £20.
It looks excellent - here is the booking form

Chelmsford BBQ

The barbecue with Chelmsford Presbyterian Church is this Saturday, it'll start at 3.30 with food being served at 6.30.
There's still space so if you'd like to come get in touch.

Camden Town Church Plant

The offering last Sunday raised just under £4,000 for the church planting work which is very encouraging so a big thankyou to all who gave.

Get out the vote

Just a reminder to cast your ballot for deacons!!

This Sunday

This Sunday we will be having a thank offering for the Camden Town Church Plant, do please give as generously as you can to this work

Chelmsford BBQ

There are over 20 people signed up to come to the BBQ with Chelmsford Presbyterian Church. There's still time to sign up

Holiday Bible Club

This is probably a bit late but there's a holiday bible club planning meeting tonight, kick off 8pm

Summer Reading 2

Grace – Amazing Grace by Brian Edwards, Day One Publications, 2003
Normally £10 but at IPC - £8

“Grace is a many-splendoured thing. In this book, Brian Edwards takes the topic of grace and explains and illustrates many aspects of it in God at work in the lives of men and women. My mother and I enjoyed reading this together over a number of months and were sorry to finish it!

Edwards is a popular author, with a great sweep of both historical and up-to-date illustration of his themes and the lives of two great heroes of the faith crop up throughout – the apostle Paul and John Newton.

It is impossible to list all the aspects of grace he deals with, but from 16 chapters these are a few – universal grace (the term he prefers over common grace), forgiving grace, community grace, ultimate grace. Just try chapter one, and you’ll be hooked! This is a book which left us praising God and to which we intend to return.”

- Chris Hosier

Funeral arrangements

The burial will actually take place at Greenford cemetry not Hanwell as I said below

Holiday Bible Club

This Thursday at 8pm is the Holiday Bible Club planning and prayer meeting.

Prayer Meeting

At the prayer meeting on Wednesday Mark and Su Larson will be speaking on the work in Afghanistan. It kicks off at 8pm do come if you possibly can.

Cath's Funeral

Cath Benton's funeral will take place on this Friday
1.30pm at IPC
3.00pm at Hanwell Park cemetry