Category Archives: Wellington

Foolishness

I wonder how you feel about looking silly, about being embarrassed, about feeling foolish. I’m a bit of a mixed bag on this kind of stuff. I don’t mind playing the fool in a drama or story if it’ll get a laugh and help make a point, in fact I quite enjoy it. I’m not […]

April 13, 2025 – 11:33 am | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Sexual Freedom

This morning is the last in our Lenten series in which we have been exploring some different areas of life in which we can experience freedom in Jesus. We’ve already looked at freedom to worship, freedom to give, freedom to be truthful, and freedom to love. If you’ve missed any of these, then do look […]

April 6, 2025 – 11:51 am | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Freedom to Worship

About three thousand years ago there was a succession crisis in the Kingdom of Israel. Whilst our monarchy is probably around 1,200 years old, the kingdom of Israel was very young. It had only come into being about 50 years previously, and there had only been three Kings. The first, Saul, was a bad lot, […]

March 9, 2025 – 12:39 pm | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Resurrection

This evening we are going to be focussing on our reading from 1 Corinthians 15. Before we focus on the details of this passage, let’s take a moment to draw back and consider the context. If we flip back to the beginning of chapter 1, we see that this letter is written by Paul, to […]

February 25, 2025 – 11:52 am | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged | Comments (0)

Refining Fire

A few years ago, when I was preparing a sermon on refining, I was rather distracted from thinking about what I was going to say by Youtube videos. In my defence, it all began in a good place – I was doing some research into what the process of refining silver would have looked like […]

February 9, 2025 – 12:39 pm | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Fire of Judgement

When I introduced this series on “fire” a couple of weeks ago I did so in the context of being fired up for mission, and reaching out to the 15,000 people who live in the parish, most of whom don’t know Jesus. Firstly we thought about fanning our gifts into flame, and then we thought […]

January 19, 2025 – 3:13 pm | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Vision 2025

Those of you who have been coming along to All Saints for a while will know that close to the beginning of each year, we remind ourselves of the vision that we believe that we’ve been given to energise and direct our work as God’s people in this community. For those of you who have […]

January 5, 2025 – 12:42 pm | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Advent Fire

Liz and I sometimes go to the cinema. After the ads have played there’s a little clip and a voice over says something like, “And now for your favourite bit. …. it’s the trailers.” And then you get the highlights of films that are due to arrive in the new year. Now, I’m not sure […]

December 15, 2024 – 12:31 pm | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Prayer Patterns

In his commentary on 1 Thessalonians, Tom Wright suggests that there are some similarities between praying and playing a musical instrument. Next week at the Civic carol service we will have some choirs and music groups from local primary schools taking part. They will, in the most part, be accompanied by a teacher playing the […]

December 1, 2024 – 7:32 pm | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged , | Comments (0)

All Saints 2024

I wonder what the best meal you have ever had was. I don’t really remember one particular meal as the best I’ve had. I remember a couple of dishes that I really enjoyed. A pea and parmesan risotto that I had at one restaurant. An Eton mess made with caramelised pineapple instead of strawberries. Really […]

November 3, 2024 – 12:31 pm | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged , | Comments (0)