Because of the wedding in Devon, I did not preach at Childs Hill last Lord's Day. Instead, Eddie Webster from Nottingham preached. What we did was to head for the home of Eleri's sister, Catrin, and her family, in Trowbridge, arriving first at nearby Hilperton, their church, where about thirty gathered to hear John Hall preach on Romans 7 (also in the congregation were Robert Oliver and Josh Williamson, a minister from Australia who I knew of but had not met). It was nice to chat after especially aboutb John's Christian Basics, which I am using with people again in Childs Hill at present. (See here). After lunch, we headed to London and I decided to vsit our friends at the Kensit Church, Finchley, where they were also about thirty in number (good these days for an evening). Spencer was preaching from Gaatians 2. In Hilperton they still use tatty copies of Grace while in Finchley they sang five hymns from screens, some from New Christian Hymns and some from Praise! I didn't feel we gained anything much from the latter effort. Both churches use NKJV, not a translation I have ever been keen on. How encouraging to think of the word being preached like that all over the country in different places. A good day.
For Hilperton see here - https://www.gracereformedbaptistchurch.org.uk/
For Kensit, Finchley (an FIEC church) - https://www.kensit.org.uk/
For Childs Hill Baptist - http://www.childshill.com/index.html
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