Author Archives: tim

The Choice

Does anyone remember a Radio 4 programme called the The Choice? I think it was last broadcast about 15 years ago, though a few episodes are still available to listen to online. Michael Buerk talked with people about how they made life altering decisions, and what the consequences of those decisions were. Many of them […]

July 27, 2025 – 11:49 am | By tim | Posted in Eyton | Tagged , | Comments (0)

God our Judge

We begin this exploration in the book of the prophet Isaiah. In his message from God to God’s people Isaiah describes what life should look like in the city of God. It should be a place of festivals, of peace, of broad rivers with no warships, a settled place which cannot be shaken. Isaiah knows […]

July 20, 2025 – 11:23 am | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged , | Comments (0)

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)