Sunday 27th June

We thank the LORD for His goodness to us. We were encouraged by the attendance at our meetings of visiting saints: Mr Ron Elliot of Waltham Abbey, Mr Bill Dagleish of Fife and Mr and Mrs Dennis Butler of the Kennet Road assembly in Newbury.

The Gospel meeting was ably conducted by our Brother from Harrogate, Paul Jackson. Drawing our attention to a few verses from Romans chapter 1 16ff. He spoke about the Power of God, the Righteousness of God and the Wrath of God. Students of the Word may be helped by understanding the word translated in verse 18 "hold" to mean "hold down or retain" I think the sense there is of people who actually know spiritual truths including the truth of the Sovereignty and Power of God but do not sincerely acknowledge Him in their lives and are therefore "without excuse"[v 20].

Paul was also able to make some useful suggestions as to how we might transfer the audio recording of the Gospel meetings to this blog. A work in progress at the moment!

Gospel Meeting

On Sunday 7th June our evening meeting was led by our Brother Graham Elliot from our own assembly. The reading was from Exodus chapter 3 1-22. We were reminded of the Mercy of God in making preparation for the liberation of His people. In verse 7 God says "I have seen... I have heard... I know". He sent a Man to lead His people, a man who entered obscurity, took up a position of humility, was prepared during a period of years and was effective in his Divinely appointed work insofar as he trusted in God. So it was in the case of our Lord.

The amplification system that was recently installed incorporates a recording facility so that CDs of the meeting exist and we are hoping to make them available as computer files for the benefit of those unable to attend the meeting.

We continue to have in our prayers Iris and Terry Benstead and also Peter Jones, who will shortly be having a hip replacement operation. We praise God for his miraculous healing of one of our friends, Dianne Brookbank, whose tumour "disappeared "!