Category Archives: Wellington

It’s All About Love

Reading John’s letters always makes me smile, he just can’t stop talking about love. He’s completely obsessed by it. Don’t forget that the first time we met John he was in a fishing boat on the lake of Galilee, probably as quite a young man. Jesus calls him and off he goes, with his brother […]

December 25, 2016 – 7:35 am | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (1)

Songs of Praise

This morning we’ve heard the songs of two women who share a name in their own language, though separated by the early translators of the Bible. Miriam and Mary, also separated by centuries of history, but singing from the overflow of the same joy in their hearts at the working of the same God in […]

December 18, 2016 – 1:03 pm | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (4)

Oh Come All Ye, Get Full

I wonder if anybody here has seen the advertising billboard on the station car park? Can anybody remember what it says? It is an advert for a KFC “Colonel’s Christmas Banquet and it says this, “Oh Come All Ye, Get Full.” See what they’ve done there, “Oh Come All Ye, Get Full.” Now, I like […]

December 12, 2016 – 1:03 pm | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (1)

Inspiring Hope. Warning of Danger.

I wonder if you can guess when these were said? • “Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further developments.” • “The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon.” • “Before man reaches the moon, your mail […]

December 4, 2016 – 1:03 pm | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (0)

And so Abram went.

Last week, when we were thinking about the Tower of Babel, we thought about God’s scattering, about the command of God on humanity to fill the earth. At the beginning of this evening’s reading, we have the same dynamic at work – God is still scattering, moving Abram and his family on, but there is […]

November 21, 2016 – 11:48 am | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Comments (0)

Babel: Scattering, Unity, Pride

We are coming towards the end of our sermon series, taking us from the beginnings of creation to the call of Abram. Now, I have not been here for the rest of the series and, because of other services that have interrupted the series, it’s actually been a couple of weeks since any of us […]

November 14, 2016 – 4:04 pm | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (3)

A Chapter Break

Does anyone know who the UK’s best selling author of the 1990’s was? It is, of course, Terry Pratchett. He also happens to be one of my favourite authors, especially his Discworld series. There is, however a slight problem, with the books in this series. There are no chapter breaks. The writing just goes on […]

November 6, 2016 – 1:26 pm | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments (8)

Referee?

Who’d be a referee? There you are, in the middle of it all, players trying to fool you, see what they can get away with, persuade you. Everybody on the touch line second guessing your decisions, questioning your parenthood, suggesting you should go to Specsavers. If you have a perfect performance no one notices you, […]

July 18, 2016 – 9:40 am | By tim | Posted in Wellington, Wrockwardine Wood | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (1)

Praying for the City

How do you eat an elephant? A bite at a time. Now, when Nick asked me to speak on Praying for the City that is a bit what it felt like. Cities are big places and prayer is a big subject, no just one elephant, but two! You’ll be glad to hear that I’m not […]

September 13, 2015 – 1:23 pm | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Throne Room

This evening I would like to invite you to consider your place in the throne room of God. In today’s western democracy we don’t think much about thrones, or at least I don’t, but Hebrews was written in a world where throne rooms really were the seat of power. They were the places of council, […]

May 18, 2015 – 11:21 am | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)