Author Archives: tim

Clear Communication

For those of you who were here last week, you will know that we are now on the second slice of the sandwich. For those of you who weren’t here, I’d better explain. Two weeks ago, we looked at 1 Corinthians chapter 12, and Paul’s teaching about spiritual gifts and the richness of unity and […]

November 25, 2019 – 1:58 pm | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Love

It is said that familiarity breeds contempt. It’s often struck me as a slightly depressing world view, one which I hope isn’t necessarily true. It seems to me much more hopeful to believe that familiarity might breed insight, affection, and comfort. Maybe, though, this does take a bit of work, and maybe a choice to […]

November 19, 2019 – 11:25 am | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (0)

One Body

As we continue on through our exploration of our Paul’s letter to the Christians in Corinth, we are still working through some of the practical applications of the things that he started off with. In the first part of the letter he laid the foundations of what he was writing to them. Everything he writes […]

November 11, 2019 – 2:08 pm | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

All Saints

I know that you might find this difficult to believe, but when I was a teenager I could be quite annoying. Looking back I feel particularly sorry for my Sunday school teachers. You see, I had the privilege of growing up in a Christian household, I’d been in church since I was little, I knew […]

November 3, 2019 – 2:41 pm | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (0)

Ordinary

I’d like to begin this morning by telling you one of my favourite true stories. It’s a bit longer than my normal sermon illustrations, so please bear with me. Are you sitting comfortably? Mary’s mother carefully placed the apple pie in the oven. She wiped her floury hands. ‘That’s all the baking done, Mary. Now […]

October 21, 2019 – 11:02 am | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Exiles and Foreigners

A couple of years ago I was in Lubambashi airport on the way home from a two week trip to the Democratic Republic of Congo. We were already running a day late, because of a failure of a connecting flight the previous day, and there was some doubt as to whether or not we had […]

October 15, 2019 – 4:45 pm | By tim | Posted in Eyton | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Urgent and Vulnerable

Over the last few weeks we’ve been thinking about mission in our Sunday morning services. Some of us have been exploring it in our small groups, and yesterday about 40 of us got together for a whole day to think about what mission means for us, here in Wellington, in 2019. As part of this […]

October 7, 2019 – 11:34 am | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Grain and Grape

Grain and grapes. Bread and wine. Simple, homely, things that appear again and again throughout the Bible. Everyday things that are used to illustrate, to symbolise, to help us get hold of deep and significant truths about God and our place in the world. Grain and grapes. Bread and wine. I’d like to invite you […]

October 1, 2019 – 1:51 pm | By tim | Posted in Eyton | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

What is the body for? – 1 Corinthians

Nice to see you, to see you ….. Brexit means …. A Mars a day helps you work, rest and …. Across the worlds of entertainment, politics, marketing we see the power of the slogan, the short phrase that catches people’s imagination, that is easily memorable, that captures the essence of an argument, a position, […]

September 25, 2019 – 2:55 pm | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (0)

The Power of God – 1 Corinthians

Last week we began our journey through the book of 1 Corinthians, this letter from Paul to the members of the church that he had planted in Corinth. We thought about Paul’s absolute focus on Jesus Christ as the foundation of his life, the source of all his thinking, and the root of all that […]

September 25, 2019 – 2:49 pm | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (0)