Author Archives: tim

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]