Category Archives: Wellington

What does prophecy do?

I’ve got a few things in my bag this morning. I wonder if you can work out what they do. Some of you might know straight away, so please give those who don’t, time to have a look and a couple of attempts to work it out before putting us out of our misery. Just […]

February 18, 2024 – 2:00 pm | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Loving God with our actions

This term we are exploring together ways in which we can put our value of Loving God into practice through exploring ways of deepening our intimacy with God. Last week Ellie began the series by helping us think about how we spend our time, and how spending time with God can grow our love for […]

January 21, 2024 – 12:51 pm | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Vision 2024

I wonder how you feel about swimming. Just take a moment and think about it. If someone suggested going swimming to you, what would your gut reaction be? Perhaps you swim every day, or two or three times a week, and it would just be normal for you. Perhaps it would depend on where you’d […]

January 7, 2024 – 12:50 pm | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Advent 3 – Preparing

I wonder how your preparations for Christmas are going? The vicarage report card is, I think, pretty good. The decorations are up, thanks to Liz and the kids. I have bought the presents I’m in charge of. There have been a lot of deliveries, so I’m fairly sure that Liz has bought the presents she […]

December 17, 2023 – 12:54 pm | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Advent 2 – Baptism

I love Mark’s eye witness account of Jesus’ life. It seems to me to have been written by someone who wants to get on with it, to keep the action moving. As you read it through, you can barely catch breath as Mark jumps from one scene to another. The beginning sets the tone, none […]

December 10, 2023 – 12:40 pm | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged , | Comments (0)

All Saints 2024

Last Sunday morning I had the joy of visiting the young people’s groups in the Parish Centre. I went into Pathfinders, and they were in the middle of a conversation about the different ways that God speaks to us. They were talking about the Bible, and the Holy Spirit, about God speaking through other people, […]

November 5, 2023 – 12:47 pm | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Early Church – Working

A couple of weeks ago, as part of our ongoing examination of the life of the early church, I spoke about being a disturbing church, and one of the examples we looked at was in chapter 5 of Acts. What was the outcome of the early church disturbing those around them? It grew. This is […]

October 15, 2023 – 2:04 pm | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged | Comments (0)

Early Church – Disturbing

This morning we continue our journey through Acts, seeing how the early church did things, and what we might learn from that for our own church life. Over the last couple of weeks we’ve had a merry old time thinking about caring and sharing – lovely affirming stuff. This week, however, it gets a bit […]

October 1, 2023 – 2:03 pm | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged , | Comments (0)

The Early Church – Caring

I wonder if anyone remembers these? Perhaps you had one, or your children or grandchildren. Anyone going to own up? Now, I have two admissions to make. The first is that I thought that care bears were a thing of the past, but when I googled to find a picture of them, it became apparent […]

September 17, 2023 – 11:55 am | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged , | Comments (0)

The Early Church – Baptism

This morning we are continuing our series exploring our communal life as a church community, by investigating the life of the early church as seen in Acts. As we read how the early church did things it gives a great opportunity to highlight and celebrate, as well as to look for ways in which we […]

September 10, 2023 – 11:50 am | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)