Author Archives: tim

Freedom to Worship

About three thousand years ago there was a succession crisis in the Kingdom of Israel. Whilst our monarchy is probably around 1,200 years old, the kingdom of Israel was very young. It had only come into being about 50 years previously, and there had only been three Kings. The first, Saul, was a bad lot, […]

March 9, 2025 – 12:39 pm | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Resurrection

This evening we are going to be focussing on our reading from 1 Corinthians 15. Before we focus on the details of this passage, let’s take a moment to draw back and consider the context. If we flip back to the beginning of chapter 1, we see that this letter is written by Paul, to […]

February 25, 2025 – 11:52 am | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged | Comments (0)

Blessings?

This morning we meet Jesus on a journey between two places. Our reading from Luke’s historical account of Jesus’ life and ministry began, “And he came down with them.” Which prompts the questions. Where did he come down from and who is “them”? To find the answers to these questions we need to look back […]

February 16, 2025 – 11:23 am | By tim | Posted in Eyton | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Refining Fire

A few years ago, when I was preparing a sermon on refining, I was rather distracted from thinking about what I was going to say 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 […]

February 9, 2025 – 12:39 pm | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Fire of Judgement

When I introduced this series on “fire” a couple of weeks ago I did so in the context of being fired up for mission, and reaching out to the 15,000 people who live in the parish, most of whom don’t know Jesus. Firstly we thought about fanning our gifts into flame, and then we thought […]

January 19, 2025 – 3:13 pm | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Vision 2025

Those of you who have been coming along to All Saints for a while will know that close to the beginning of each year, we remind ourselves of the vision that we believe that we’ve been given to energise and direct our work as God’s people in this community. For those of you who have […]

January 5, 2025 – 12:42 pm | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Hungry

I wonder what you are hungry for at Christmas? I wonder what you’re not hungry for? I’ve got some options for you for your Christmas dinner. I want you to shout out “hungry” for the one that you would choose for your Christmas dinner. You are only allowed to choose one on each slide. Turkey […]

December 22, 2024 – 12:21 pm | By tim | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged | Comments (0)

Advent Fire

Liz and I sometimes go to the cinema. After the ads have played there’s a little clip and a voice over says something like, “And now for your favourite bit. …. it’s the trailers.” And then you get the highlights of films that are due to arrive in the new year. Now, I’m not sure […]

December 15, 2024 – 12:31 pm | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Prayer Patterns

In his commentary on 1 Thessalonians, Tom Wright suggests that there are some similarities between praying and playing a musical instrument. Next week at the Civic carol service we will have some choirs and music groups from local primary schools taking part. They will, in the most part, be accompanied by a teacher playing the […]

December 1, 2024 – 7:32 pm | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Destruction. Deceit. Delivery.

I wonder whether you enjoy visiting cathedrals. I find that there is something reassuring about a place that has been in prayed in faithfully for many generations. I am also astonished when I think about how big they are, usually, and how long they took to build. What was achieved with basic hand tools and […]

November 17, 2024 – 5:20 pm | By tim | Posted in Wombridge | Tagged , | Comments (0)