Tag Archives: Forgiveness

Father

Though sceptical of his teenage son’s newfound determination to build muscles, one father followed his teenager to the store’s weight–lifting department, where they admired a set of weights. “Please, Dad,” pleaded the teen, “I promise I’ll use ’em every day.” “I don’t know, son. It’s really a commitment on your part,” the father said. “Please, […]

June 20, 2016 – 7:50 am | By tim | Posted in Sunday Afternoon Thing | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Shame. Ash me.

As I was thinking about what I was going to say this morning a very simple anagram struck me. Ash me is an anagram of shame. It got me thinking about the way in which Lent, and Ash Wednesday in particular, can help us deal with shame. It may be that we don’t feel shame. […]

February 10, 2016 – 10:07 am | By tim | Posted in Holy Trinity Academy | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Earthy humility, shameful suffering, effervescent joy.

This morning we are looking forward to Lent, and especially the way in which many of the folk of St Andrew’s different congregations are going to be exploring Lent with the help of this book,“Learning to dream again”. In the introduction the author suggests three themes that can help us to develop a Christian wisdom: […]

February 7, 2016 – 1:33 pm | By tim | Posted in Shifnal | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Closer to the fire

When I was a lad I was in the Scouts. As far as I was concerned one of the main attractions of being in Scouts was that it gave me a good excuse for messing around with fires. On a couple of occasions, however, things didn’t go entirely to plan. Like the time I was […]

February 18, 2013 – 9:32 am | By tim | Posted in River Church | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Taking Sin Seriously

Did anybody see Casualty last night? I was struck with one of the story lines in particular. A middle aged white man and a young black man have a chance encounter in a pub. There is obviously some history between them. By a series of slightly contrived circumstances they both end up in the Emergency […]

October 2, 2012 – 12:51 pm | By tim | Posted in Sherrifhales, Tong | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (2)

Turning and Pointing

There is a quotation ascribed to Churchill that goes, ” If you have an important point to make, don’t try to be subtle or clever. Use the pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time; a tremendous whack.” This is mirrored in a common […]

June 24, 2012 – 2:15 pm | By tim | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

The Spiritual Battle

If I’ve understood the rota that I was sent, you are going to be having two sermons on this passage, the first concentrating on the spiritual battle that we are involved in, and the second, focussed on the armour that we wear in that battle. This is an interesting way of looking at this teaching, […]

June 11, 2012 – 3:30 pm | By tim | Posted in River Church | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Protecting our hearts

You may have picked up from being here last week, or from the slightly different format of the notice sheet, that we are doing something a bit different at the moment in our Bible readings and sermon. For this six week period, leading up to the summer, we are going through this section of Paul’s […]

July 4, 2011 – 1:29 pm | By tim | Posted in Shelton | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Getting stoned?

I used to have a boss who was never really comfortable if everything was going well. At those times when we were on course to hit target, we had just the right number of cars in stock, the sun was shining and there was no crisis for us to grapple with did he relax and […]

May 22, 2011 – 3:34 pm | By tim | Posted in Shelton | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Breaking the power of sin

I wonder why you are here today.  I am here because I believe that the overcoming of sin in peoples’ lives is one of the most encouraging and vigorous demonstrations of the power of the risen Christ, and I want to see more of it.  If we are to see more of this power, then […]

December 6, 2010 – 2:57 pm | By tim | Posted in Shelton | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)