Category Archives: River Church

Faithful Generosity

So Christmas has come and gone, most of the decorations are down and homes have been found for the presents we have been given and, if we’re really organised, we’ve written the thank you letters. It can be a bit of a challenge that, can’t it. I have to confess that in our house we’ve […]

January 12, 2014 – 5:31 pm | By tim | Posted in River Church | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Joy hard won

Before we look at today’s passage, let’s remind ourselves a bit about the church that Paul is writing to. It was a church that he planted in the city of Philippi. Two of the key events from the church’s early life are its roots in a prayer group that used to meet at the river, […]

September 9, 2013 – 8:03 am | By tim | Posted in River Church | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Closer to the fire

When I was a lad I was in the Scouts. As far as I was concerned one of the main attractions of being in Scouts was that it gave me a good excuse for messing around with fires. On a couple of occasions, however, things didn’t go entirely to plan. Like the time I was […]

February 18, 2013 – 9:32 am | By tim | Posted in River Church | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

The Spiritual Battle

If I’ve understood the rota that I was sent, you are going to be having two sermons on this passage, the first concentrating on the spiritual battle that we are involved in, and the second, focussed on the armour that we wear in that battle. This is an interesting way of looking at this teaching, […]

June 11, 2012 – 3:30 pm | By tim | Posted in River Church | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)