Author Archives: tim

What do you see in the world around you?

Preached on August 13th 2008. Almost one hundred years ago two women died. On this day, in 1910, Florence Nightingale’s life ended. On this day, in 1912, Octavia Hill gave up the ghost. Both of these women had looked at the world as it was in their day, found it lacking, and set about changing […]

August 14, 2008 – 9:56 am | By tim | Posted in Shelton | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

God is a Womble

Today is Trinity Sunday, when the church takes a deep breath and engages with one of its most exciting ideas, that of the Trinity: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. This falls at a really good time for me, coming as it does at following the week when I have been studying the way in which […]

May 18, 2008 – 8:37 pm | By tim | Posted in Littleover | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Pentecost Water

What is it about kids and water? My four year old, Nathaniel, came home from nursery this week one day and told me that they’d had something really special that day. They’d had the water guns out. But there was one rule. No squirting people. They’d cleaned the garden furniture, sprayed the walls of the […]

May 11, 2008 – 7:23 pm | By tim | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Changing Stories

Tonight we pick up the story leading up to Easter. This is Palm Sunday, named after the palm branches that the people in the crowds waved as they greeted Jesus, as he rode into Jerusalem on a donkey. We read and thought about that episode in this morning’s service. By the time we get to […]

March 23, 2008 – 7:10 pm | By tim | Posted in Littleover | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (0)

Suspended

Tom is very excited. His dad has been away from home for what seems like forever. But, he is coming home today. All week Tom has been counting down the number of sleeps left before it will be the day that Dad is coming home. At school Tom has been telling his friends about how […]

March 23, 2008 – 5:12 pm | By tim | Posted in Littleover | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (0)

Hezekiah

Last week we met Hannah, a woman who was desperate for a child. A woman who, in some senses, was a symbol of the fruitless life that the people of God were living. A woman who came to the place of worship, poured out her distress to God, and received the promise of God with […]

March 23, 2008 – 5:02 pm | By tim | Posted in Littleover | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

Tabernacles

I don’t know if this ever happens to you, sometimes I get home from an evening meeting and my wife will be sat watching the TV. Now, if it’s Casualty, then it’s fairly straightforward. I know basically who everybody is, the plot is fairly predictable and so, if I wanted to, I could pick up […]

March 23, 2008 – 4:55 pm | By tim | Posted in Littleover | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Community in Kindness

This week we continue our series of services on the theme of building community. Each week we have been looking at the ways in which the work of God, the Holy Spirit, can be seen in the building up of our community. We have looked at love, joy, peace, and now we come to kindness. […]

March 23, 2008 – 4:46 pm | By tim | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Unchanging:Prayer:Mouths:Jesus

Unchanging Daniel’s enemies thought that they knew what couldn’t be changed. They thought that they knew what was permanent. They thought that rules and regulations and laws couldn’t be changed. They wanted to destroy Daniel, so they watched him. They couldn’t find anything wrong with the way he went about his business or how he […]

March 23, 2008 – 4:41 pm | By tim | Posted in Littleover | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

Slavery and Freedom

This sermon was put together with the help of “Keystone”, the youth group at St Peter’s Church, Littleover. I really enjoyed spending some time with them over a couple of weeks, thinking about what it is to be Christlike, and particularly about this teaching from Jesus. This passage is about freedom and slavery, truth and […]

March 23, 2008 – 4:30 pm | By tim | Posted in Littleover | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (0)