200 years of the gospel at Grove Chapel
Paul Yeulett
2019 marks the bicentenary of Grove Chapel, Camberwell, south London, an historic, independent and non-conformist congregation in which the gospel has been faithfully preached throughout its history.
It all began with the conversion of a young man from Hertfordshire called Joseph Irons (1785-1852), who very soon experienced a desire to preach Christ and, through a remarkable series of providential events, found himself preaching at Camden Chapel in Camberwell, a mile or so from the present site of Grove Chapel. After being rejected by those in charge of the church for preaching God’s sovereign grace and faith in Christ alone, a breakaway group called Irons as pastor of a new church, in a new building.
Narnia's lessons for knowing and enjoying God
Summer would not have been summer without a good deal of reading (as well as cricket, which you must admit hasn’t been bad this season).
I have recently been enjoying a good deal of C. S. Lewis, devouring the third part of his Space Trilogy, entitled That Hideous Strength, as well as his three lectures published as The Abolition of Man. Both works, written near the end of the Second World War, depict a world threatened by dystopian totalitarianism. I was drawn to these works after reading John Lennox’s outstanding 2084 and the AI Revolution: How Artificial Intelligence Informs Our Future – a book I have strongly urged our congregation to read, in which Lewis is cited very frequently.