Tag Archives: mercy

The Messenger

I’m going to start with a confession this morning. I was rather distracted from thinking about what I was going to say this morning by Youtube videos. In my defence, it all began in a good place – I was doing some research into what the process of refining silver would have looked like in […]

December 9, 2018 – 12:57 pm | By tim | Posted in Eyton | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Soldier. Athlete. Farmer.

Having spent the last few weeks in Paul’s first letter to his friend Timothy, we now step into the second. The context is similar for Timothy, he is still in Ephesus, leading the church there. It seems, however, that Paul’s suffering has increased as he is imprisoned in Rome, and his reflections on that lead […]

May 15, 2018 – 11:48 am | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (2)

Forgiveness: Letting off. Letting go. Letting in.

“Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us.” Is a well done phrase from a well known prayer. We will pray it ourselves in a little while. This theme comes up repeatedly in Jesus’ teaching to his followers, that the forgiveness we receive is dependent on the forgiveness that we give […]

September 19, 2016 – 7:57 am | By tim | Posted in Priorslee | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Fruitful, Inviting, Growing

Who knows what this is? Yes, it’s a fig. Perhaps you might be more familiar with them in that classic English tea time treat – the fig roll. Has anyone here ever grown these things? I was going to say that I thought you had to grow them under glass in the UK, but a […]

March 4, 2013 – 11:50 am | By tim | Posted in Darby End | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Advent 4 – Joseph

They say that you wait ages for a bus to come along, and then two come along together. Well, here I am again for the second time in a month and, not only that, it’s the same Sunday as I talked on last year, The last Sunday of Advent, the last Sunday before Christmas. Last […]

March 22, 2008 – 8:59 pm | By tim | Posted in Luton | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)