Author Archives: tim

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)

Why read the Bible?

Why read the Bible? Well, there are lots of levels of reasons for all kinds of things that we do, and it’s just the same for reading the Bible, and I think that the part of Paul’s letter to Timothy we’ve heard read this afternoon can help us to think about some of these levels. […]

October 19, 2015 – 8:19 am | By tim | Posted in Sunday Afternoon Thing | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

What is the Bible?

Over the next few months we’re going to be thinking about the Bible. Between now and Christmas we will look at the questions: What is the Bible? Why do we read the Bible? How do we read the Bible? This afternoon we’re starting with “What is the Bible”. Andrew has already started us off down […]

September 21, 2015 – 7:30 am | By tim | Posted in Sunday Afternoon Thing | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Greatness

How do you measure greatness? This question crops up perennially in the sports sections of the newspapers and internet. A few weeks ago Wayne Rooney scored against Switzerland and became England’s all time leading goalscorer. Cue lots of media discussion if this meant that he was now the greatest England striker of all time. Was […]

September 20, 2015 – 11:32 am | By tim | Posted in Priorslee | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Praying for the City

How do you eat an elephant? A bite at a time. Now, when Nick asked me to speak on Praying for the City that is a bit what it felt like. Cities are big places and prayer is a big subject, no just one elephant, but two! You’ll be glad to hear that I’m not […]

September 13, 2015 – 1:23 pm | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)