Author Archives: tim

Jumping from 20,000 feet

Do you know the song, “He jumped without a parachute from twenty thousand feet”? Well, I think they’re going to have to rewrite it. I was reading this morning on the BBC News website that yesterday a man called Luke Aikens did exactly this. After 2 years training and preparation, he jumped out of an […]

July 31, 2016 – 11:42 am | By tim | Posted in Priorslee | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Referee?

Who’d be a referee? There you are, in the middle of it all, players trying to fool you, see what they can get away with, persuade you. Everybody on the touch line second guessing your decisions, questioning your parenthood, suggesting you should go to Specsavers. If you have a perfect performance no one notices you, […]

July 18, 2016 – 9:40 am | By tim | Posted in Wellington, Wrockwardine Wood | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (1)

Shining Light

So it’s the end of One Bright Week for another year. It really has been a week dedicated to letting the light of Jesus shine out across Telford, not hiding the lamp under a basket or under the bed, but putting it out in the community and letting it shine. Of course it all started […]

June 26, 2016 – 11:23 am | By tim | Posted in Dawley Christian Centre | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (1)

Father

Though sceptical of his teenage son’s newfound determination to build muscles, one father followed his teenager to the store’s weight–lifting department, where they admired a set of weights. “Please, Dad,” pleaded the teen, “I promise I’ll use ’em every day.” “I don’t know, son. It’s really a commitment on your part,” the father said. “Please, […]

June 20, 2016 – 7:50 am | By tim | Posted in Sunday Afternoon Thing | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Communication

God does great stuff for everybody and we are all to tell people about it. That is this today’s talk in a nutshell, and if you remember nothing else from today, that is the headline to remember. God does great stuff for everybody and we are all to tell people about it. I wonder if […]

May 17, 2016 – 9:09 am | By tim | Posted in Sunday Afternoon Thing | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

What are you waiting for?

I wonder what you do when you’re waiting for something. I was listening to a radio programme on boredom yesterday and they were talking about people do when they’re bored to fill the time and they mentioned a teacher who used to get so bored in meetings that they would count the window panes in […]

May 12, 2016 – 2:20 pm | By tim | Posted in Holy Trinity Academy | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Your will be done

The reading we have just heard is is primarily an account of a very personal encounter between Mary and God. However it draws on the story of the community and became formative for the community. So, as we explore this event this morning I invite you to keep two questions in the front of your […]

April 26, 2016 – 2:46 pm | By tim | Posted in Springfield | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Shame. Ash me.

As I was thinking about what I was going to say this morning a very simple anagram struck me. Ash me is an anagram of shame. It got me thinking about the way in which Lent, and Ash Wednesday in particular, can help us deal with shame. It may be that we don’t feel shame. […]

February 10, 2016 – 10:07 am | By tim | Posted in Holy Trinity Academy | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Earthy humility, shameful suffering, effervescent joy.

This morning we are looking forward to Lent, and especially the way in which many of the folk of St Andrew’s different congregations are going to be exploring Lent with the help of this book,“Learning to dream again”. In the introduction the author suggests three themes that can help us to develop a Christian wisdom: […]

February 7, 2016 – 1:33 pm | By tim | Posted in Shifnal | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Bible Sunday 2015

Every year we go to New Wine, a great big Christian conference/holiday. One of the things about that type of event is that you have the opportunity to get some in depth Bible teaching. One year, there was something about the way the guy doing the Bible teaching held his Bible that really hit me. […]

October 26, 2015 – 9:35 am | By tim | Posted in Priorslee | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)