Author Archives: tim

Exiled

Happy New Year. You might think that this is a bit of an odd thing to say, but we’re in church, and the church can be a bit odd. One of the ways that it is odd, is that the church year begins about four weeks before Christmas, on the first Sunday of Advent, which […]

March 23, 2008 – 4:12 pm | By tim | Posted in Littleover | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Shield of Faith

What is it that is distinctive about the shield as a piece of armour that might say something important to us about the nature of faith. Imagine a Roman battle field. In the middle of the fight you see a person, isolated, sheltering behind a shield. It’s a fairly big shield, about as tall and […]

March 23, 2008 – 4:02 pm | By tim | Posted in Nottingham | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

Why Pray?

As natural as breathing. That’s how people describe something that just happens, something you don’t have to think about it, something your body looks after for you. Nobody asks Why breathe? It’s obvious. If you don’t breathe you’re going to die. And we don’t ask, “Why breathe?” because, generally, that’s not much chance of us […]

March 23, 2008 – 3:57 pm | By tim | Posted in Luton | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Persecuted for Righteousness?

Summer’s finally here, so we’ve been told all this week. The thermometer’s hit the roof, and pallid knees are being exposed across the nation. Summer’s here so are we in shape for it? It’s been a tough week this week. Lots going on, and to top it off, preparing something to say this morning. And […]

March 22, 2008 – 9:18 pm | By tim | Posted in Luton | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

Encountering God in Work

Last week, Charlie talked about the various amounts of time that he’d calculated he would be spending in various activities in his life. Now, I reckon that I’m going to spend about 83,200 hours of my life working, about 20% of my waking hours. That’s quite a big chunk and if I’m not Encountering God […]

March 22, 2008 – 9:11 pm | By tim | Posted in Luton | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Advent 4 – Mary

During Advent, this time of waiting and preparation before Christmas, our services have been themed around, “The Return of the King”. We started by thinking about the quality of our wait for the return of our King, Jesus. Are we fearful, unsure what to expect, or expectant and focussed. We went on to start thinking […]

March 22, 2008 – 9:07 pm | By tim | Posted in Luton | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

Advent 4 – Joseph

They say that you wait ages for a bus to come along, and then two come along together. Well, here I am again for the second time in a month and, not only that, it’s the same Sunday as I talked on last year, The last Sunday of Advent, the last Sunday before Christmas. Last […]

March 22, 2008 – 8:59 pm | By tim | Posted in Luton | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Helmet of Salvation

Equipment lists. I’m sure you’re all familiar with them. You’re starting a new school and it consists of the correct number of sweatshirts, socks, football shirts, all with name tags. You’re going to camp and it’s all sleeping bags, knives and forks and warm clothing. Name tags again. You’re off to college and it’s mostly […]

March 22, 2008 – 8:44 pm | By tim | Posted in Luton | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (0)

The Bible

We went to New Wine, a great big Christian conference/holiday a couple of weeks ago. One of the things about that type of event is that you have the opportunity to get some in depth Bible teaching. Every morning we’d take the kids to their groups and head along to the Big Top for worship […]

March 22, 2008 – 8:38 pm | By tim | Posted in Luton | Tagged | Comments (0)

Grace – Come Thirsty

Last week we started off on our journey through Lent, a journey that will explore some of the ideas of spiritual refreshment that are presented in the “Come Thirsty” course. Charlie invited us to come and drink at a well, the well of God’s refreshment for us. We were introduced to the idea that the […]

March 22, 2008 – 8:21 pm | By tim | Posted in Luton | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)