Author Archives: tim

Unchanging God

How many Anglicans does it take to change a lightbulb? Change?!!! Change!!??? I know, of course, that this cliché would never apply to us here at All Saints, but it does illustrate the complicated relationship that many of us have with change. Each of us will have our own appetite for change, how comfortable or […]

July 13, 2025 – 11:31 am | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Fear and Loneliness

Loneliness and Fear. Emotions that we all feel at one time or another in our lives. Very often they come together, reinforcing each other, trapping us in a vicious cycle. In this evening’s readings we see the corrosive and damaging effects of loneliness and fear, but also see a way through them as God breaks […]

June 24, 2025 – 8:51 am | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Symptomatic Relief

I suspect that for many of us doctor’s appointments are a feature of our lives. Trying to get to the bottom of what’s gone wrong this time, experimenting with combinations of treatments that can alleviate symptoms of one condition with out them making another one worse, going for tests. Sound familiar? One of the purposes […]

June 15, 2025 – 2:56 pm | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Spirit Rest

I wonder if you have ever sat watching a fire. Maybe a hearth fire at home, round a fire pit, or at a bonfire. There’s something mesmerising about the movement of the flame, lifelike but not, random patterns, but within boundaries of expectation, the energy, the flow. It’s so fascinating that some people have video […]

June 8, 2025 – 12:22 pm | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged | Comments (0)

God of Mercy

The people of God were far from home. Their country had been invaded and defeated. The best of them had been forced to leave their homes and relocate to the capital of the empire that had overcome them. They had to learn a new language, live in a strange culture. They were exiled. For decades […]

May 18, 2025 – 12:02 pm | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Messiah?

This week we have been remembering and celebrating VE Day. In the Spring and Summer months of 1945 countless men and women were coming home from the war to be reunited with their families. I wonder if amongst all those children, excited at the prospect of seeing their fathers for the first time in 3,4,5 […]

May 11, 2025 – 11:20 am | By tim | Posted in Eyton | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Creator God

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” “A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away. “Is this the real life, is this just fantasy? These are the first lines from “A Tale of Two Cities”, “Star Wars”, and “Bohemian Rhapsody”. Any writer will tell you that the first […]

May 4, 2025 – 1:00 pm | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Foolishness

I wonder how you feel about looking silly, about being embarrassed, about feeling foolish. I’m a bit of a mixed bag on this kind of stuff. I don’t mind playing the fool in a drama or story if it’ll get a laugh and help make a point, in fact I quite enjoy it. I’m not […]

April 13, 2025 – 11:33 am | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Sexual Freedom

This morning is the last in our Lenten series in which we have been exploring some different areas of life in which we can experience freedom in Jesus. We’ve already looked at freedom to worship, freedom to give, freedom to be truthful, and freedom to love. If you’ve missed any of these, then do look […]

April 6, 2025 – 11:51 am | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Others and Mothers

I’ve found my self thinking and talking about this passage from Luke’s historical account of Jesus’ life and ministry a lot recently. It was the passage that had been set for Wednesday lunchtime communion last week at All Saints, and so I spoke on it at the care home communions that I went to as […]

March 30, 2025 – 11:20 am | By tim | Posted in Eyton | Tagged | Comments (0)