Category Archives: Wellington

Handover

This evening we are picking up our journey through the Old Testament. At the end of the last series we left Moses and the people of God, having been rescued from Egypt, setting out into the desert. They had received the provision of manna, food from heaven, the beginnings of the law, and instructions for […]

January 13, 2020 – 12:03 pm | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

2020 Vision – Keep spreading the tent

This morning I shared some details of a series of events that began just over eight years ago that led me to pick this reading from Isaiah for us to think about at the beginning of this new year and new decade. This series of events reinforced for me this instruction from God to God’s […]

January 6, 2020 – 11:48 am | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

2020 Vision – Spread the Tent

My family and I first moved to Telford in 2011. We moved here to live in Priorslee, with the aim of planting a church in Priorslee to reach out to those that the traditional churches in the area weren’t reaching. My licensing service was in the hall of a local primary school, and in the […]

January 5, 2020 – 3:23 pm | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (0)

Roots and Fruits

As many of you know we have apple trees in the garden at the vicarage. When we first moved in there were three trees. Two great big trees that produced heavy crops of cooking apples and one, spindly little tree that produced a meagre crop of eating apples. I was talking to Gill Ireland about […]

December 8, 2019 – 2:17 pm | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Clear Communication

For those of you who were here last week, you will know that we are now on the second slice of the sandwich. For those of you who weren’t here, I’d better explain. Two weeks ago, we looked at 1 Corinthians chapter 12, and Paul’s teaching about spiritual gifts and the richness of unity and […]

November 25, 2019 – 1:58 pm | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Love

It is said that familiarity breeds contempt. It’s often struck me as a slightly depressing world view, one which I hope isn’t necessarily true. It seems to me much more hopeful to believe that familiarity might breed insight, affection, and comfort. Maybe, though, this does take a bit of work, and maybe a choice to […]

November 19, 2019 – 11:25 am | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (0)

One Body

As we continue on through our exploration of our Paul’s letter to the Christians in Corinth, we are still working through some of the practical applications of the things that he started off with. In the first part of the letter he laid the foundations of what he was writing to them. Everything he writes […]

November 11, 2019 – 2:08 pm | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

All Saints

I know that you might find this difficult to believe, but when I was a teenager I could be quite annoying. Looking back I feel particularly sorry for my Sunday school teachers. You see, I had the privilege of growing up in a Christian household, I’d been in church since I was little, I knew […]

November 3, 2019 – 2:41 pm | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (0)

Ordinary

I’d like to begin this morning by telling you one of my favourite true stories. It’s a bit longer than my normal sermon illustrations, so please bear with me. Are you sitting comfortably? Mary’s mother carefully placed the apple pie in the oven. She wiped her floury hands. ‘That’s all the baking done, Mary. Now […]

October 21, 2019 – 11:02 am | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Urgent and Vulnerable

Over the last few weeks we’ve been thinking about mission in our Sunday morning services. Some of us have been exploring it in our small groups, and yesterday about 40 of us got together for a whole day to think about what mission means for us, here in Wellington, in 2019. As part of this […]

October 7, 2019 – 11:34 am | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)