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Activities This Month

Thursday 4th 7:30pm, Church Forum [Subject: Church Vision] @ AP downstairs.
Friday 5th 7pm, Youth Club @ AP (downstairs) [last one before summer holidays!]
Lord’s Day 7th Lord’s Supper as part of Morning Service.
Lord’s Day 28th
  • Gareth Edwards preaching AM & PM @ AP.
  • Rhodri preaching in London — Capel Seion, Ealing (AM) & Trinity Church, Cockfosters (PM).

Other Notes

  • The Church Forum is an opportunity for the elders to share with the rest of the church what they have been discussing and planning. The purpose of the meeting is to better inform interested members of what’s going on behind the scenes so that they can pray and give better input into these ongoing conversations.
  • Whole-Church Prayer-Meetings: 2nd, 16th & 30th | Small-Group Prayer-Meeting: 9th & 23rd.
    • Speak to Rhodri, Ian, or Eric if you are interested in joining one of the three small-groups.
  • The weekly Women’s Fellowship meets on Wednesday mornings, in AP basement at 10:30am (TBC in Sunday notices).
    • Causeway also meets between 11 and 12:30 on a Wednesday, it is a time of worship organised by the staff of Plas Lluest (home for adults with learning disabilities set up by Alfred Place four decades ago). There is singing, reading, prayer, and sharing of the word, all geared at the Plas Lluest residents. It takes place in the Community Space in Tesco. All welcome.
  • There will be no Craft Club or Bible Reading Groups (Women’s Evening / Men’s Breakfast / Bible Club) this month. However, all are still encouraged to read Isaiah 41-66 and to consider Christ as you do. Those attending the groups, do keep a note of observations and questions to share with/ask your group. The next Bible-Book will be Ezra.
  • When able to, those manning the Book-Table go out every Saturday (weather & personnel-permitting) 11am-12:30pm; members, speak to Eric if you are interested in joining the work.
  • Rhodri and family plan to be in London from July 23rd – 29th.

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Bible-Reading Groups Commentary Tie-In

ISAIAH BY THE DAY: A New Devotional Translation – Alec Motyer (Christian Focus, 2011)

I know one or two, at least, in our congregation who have known great help from Alec Motyer, some having read a similar edition of Motyer’s commentary on the Psalms, which takes the same approach, being a day-by-day devotional book. This one is Isaiah, which is the book we’re going to be reading for the next few months as a church. Isaiah is sixty-six chapters of some of the most gospel-filled content in the Old Testament, and Alec Motyer is my favourite commentator on the book. Motyer is not from our tribe (he was an Anglican), but what’s refreshing about his writing and preaching is that he shows the wonder of seeing the Lord Jesus Christ in the Old Testament (though we may wish he was less bogged down in the academic rigour expected of a writer of his standing). He is now with the Lord, but before his death, he contributed so much of worth to our thinking on this wonderful book of the Bible (and others). If nothing else, what reading this devotional commentary will do for you is give you a sense of awe and quietness in the face of the wonder that the Lord Jesus Christ has come to save us from our sins and that he’s done that through being the suffering servant. Magnificent!