Category Archives: Wellington

Celebrating Abundance

Over the next few weeks, in the lead up to harvest, we are are going to be celebrating different aspects of God’s creation, and exploring what our responses to God’s gift in creation could be. This morning I am going to be talking about God’s generosity and abundance, and about how God provides for what […]

September 1, 2024 – 10:54 am | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Jesus on the Road

Over the summer we’ve been thinking about encounters with Jesus, the places that those encounters happened, and why the place was important to the encounter. We’ve met Jesus at the pool, on the beach, in a graveyard and at the Temple. Do catch up on the podcast, Youtube or Facebook if you missed any of […]

August 18, 2024 – 11:55 am | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Jesus in the Temple

How do you feel about camping? Let’s do a fist to five. Hold up 5 fingers if you love the kind of camping I call out. Fist if you hate it, and something in the middle if you could live with it. Let’s start high end, which some of you might think doesn’t really count […]

August 11, 2024 – 11:44 am | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Jesus in a Graveyard

Location, location, location. In our summer sermon series we have been exploring different encounters that people had with Jesus in different locations, and the importance of those locations to that encounter. A couple of weeks ago Jesus was at the pool, asking a man who had been disabled for at least 38 years if he […]

August 4, 2024 – 3:59 pm | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged , | Comments (2)

Jesus at the Pool

This morning we are beginning a new series, that will take us through the summer, in which we will explore different encounters that people had with Jesus in different places. This morning we are reading from John’s eye witness account of the good news of Jesus. The place is the Pool of Bethesda, just inside […]

July 21, 2024 – 12:03 pm | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Beloved, let us love…

There are about 300 words in our reading from John’s first letter this evening. Nearly 30 of them are the word “love”, or related terms. Just about 10%. It is not difficult to get hold of what John’s main theme is in this section of his letter. John has mentioned love before in the letter. […]

June 25, 2024 – 8:56 am | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Welcoming Sacrifice

This morning we are continuing to explore what it means to be a welcoming church, as we live out our core value of loving others. Over the past weeks we’ve thought about how it is the responsibility of all of us to be intentional and active in welcoming people, and about the importance of welcoming […]

June 16, 2024 – 11:55 am | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Pentecost 2024

I wonder if you can remember your first day doing a new thing. Maybe your first day at school, or at secondary school. Your first day of a new job, maybe your first job. How about your first day of being married. Your first day in a new house or a new town. I wonder […]

May 19, 2024 – 11:43 am | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Light

This evening we are beginning new series for our evening services in which we are going to be exploring 1 John. As this is the first in the series, we are going to begin by filling in a bit of the background to the letter, and having a think about who wrote it and why. […]

May 7, 2024 – 8:35 am | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Getting Involved in Hospitality

I wonder what you think of when you hear the word, “hospitality”. For me the phrase “hospitality industry” comes to mind. A catch all term for hotels, restaurants, cafes and that type of thing. To my mind it’s a slightly strange combination of terms, the idea that hospitality can be an industry. There’s certainly a […]

May 5, 2024 – 11:51 am | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged , | Comments (0)