Category Archives: Cobridge

Heights of love

I was up at Northwood Stadium the other day, and I saw some young people being coached in high jump. The coach had laid out some cones in a half circle, and was asking the athletes to run up to, and past, the high jump bar in a kind of “c” shape, without actually jumping. […]

May 4, 2010 – 12:28 pm | By tim | Posted in Cobridge | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Who’s your hero?

Thirty-eight thousand, four hundred pounds. What could you buy with that amount of money? You could buy a very nice car. You could buy 102,000 pints of milk. Or you could buy a pair of football boots, which is exactly what somebody did this week. What was it about these boots that made them so […]

February 28, 2010 – 4:51 pm | By tim | Posted in Cobridge | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

It’s the Law

What is happening to this ball? What happens when I let go of it ? Why does that happen? Does it make any difference who drops it? Will it always fall? Dropping this ball illustrates the law of Gravity. This morning I’d like us to think about some different kinds of law that crop up […]

August 30, 2009 – 2:23 pm | By tim | Posted in Cobridge | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (0)

Chosen?

“You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last.” Jesus spoke these words to his friends and followers nearly two thousand years ago, and I believe that he continues to speak them to us today. Maybe it will help us to hear them […]

June 2, 2009 – 10:32 am | By tim | Posted in Cobridge | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

Disciplined Worship

I wonder if you have house rules? And if you do, I wonder how they came to be decided. Let me give you some examples. In our house it’s my job to load the dishwasher and put it on before I go to bed. We didn’t need this rule before we had a dishwasher, and […]

March 16, 2009 – 3:04 pm | By tim | Posted in Cobridge | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

Joy to the world?

“Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.” Now, in common with a lot of people, Paul was in the habit of putting the things that he thought were most important at the beginning of his lists. In this case, the […]

December 15, 2008 – 1:04 pm | By tim | Posted in Cobridge | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (0)