Some of Tim's Sermons

Exiles and Foreigners

A couple of years ago I was in Lubambashi airport on the way home from a two week trip to the Democratic Republic of Congo. We were already running a day late, because of a failure of a connecting flight the previous day, and there was some doubt as to whether or not we had […]

October 15, 2019 – 4:45 pm | By tim | Posted in Eyton | Tagged exile, faith, foreigner, gratitude, healing, Jeremiah 29:1-7, leprosy, Luke 17:11-19, prayer, stranger | 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 Good Samaritan, harvest, Jesus, Luke 10:1-12, Matthew 1:18-25, mission, seasons, urgency, vulnerability | Comments (0)

Grain and Grape

Grain and grapes. Bread and wine. Simple, homely, things that appear again and again throughout the Bible. Everyday things that are used to illustrate, to symbolise, to help us get hold of deep and significant truths about God and our place in the world. Grain and grapes. Bread and wine. I’d like to invite you […]

October 1, 2019 – 1:51 pm | By tim | Posted in Eyton | Tagged bread, communion, John 6:25-35, judgement, manna, provision, Revelation 14:14-18, wine | Comments (0)

What is the body for? – 1 Corinthians

Nice to see you, to see you ….. Brexit means …. A Mars a day helps you work, rest and …. Across the worlds of entertainment, politics, marketing we see the power of the slogan, the short phrase that catches people’s imagination, that is easily memorable, that captures the essence of an argument, a position, […]

September 25, 2019 – 2:55 pm | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged 1 Corinthians 6:12-20, body, holiness, incarnation, Matthew 5:27-30, purity, sex | Comments (0)

The Power of God – 1 Corinthians

Last week we began our journey through the book of 1 Corinthians, this letter from Paul to the members of the church that he had planted in Corinth. We thought about Paul’s absolute focus on Jesus Christ as the foundation of his life, the source of all his thinking, and the root of all that […]

September 25, 2019 – 2:49 pm | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged 1 Corinthians 1:18-31, foolishness, Mark 2:13-17, power, strength, the cross, weakness, wisdom | Comments (0)

Unity in Vision – 1 Corinthians

For the next couple of months we are going to be exploring Paul’s first letter to the church at Corinth. Well I say first. It’s the first one that we have a copy of in our Bibles. In Chapter 5, verse 9, of this letter, Paul refers to a previous letter that he had written […]

September 25, 2019 – 2:45 pm | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged 1 Corinthians 1:1-17, Corinth, holiness, Revelation 22:1-5, thankfulness, unity, vision | Comments (0)

Who is he?

I wonder what you think the most important question is. A few years ago the magazine, “Philosophy Now” ran a competition for its readers to suggest candidates for the most important question. Winners of the competition included: “How can we best serve others? “Is there some property, or some rational conceptual definition, which grounds Morality?” […]

September 1, 2019 – 12:46 pm | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged Exodus 12:14-23, Jesus, Matthew 12:15-21 | Comments (2)

That you might believe

“These are written so that you may come to believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that through believing you may have life in his name.” This is why John wrote what we now call John’s gospel. The word, “gospel” means, “good news”, and the good news that John saw in […]

August 4, 2019 – 12:15 pm | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged Bible, doubt, Exodus 33:12-23, faith, God's presence, hope, Jesus, John 20:24-31, resurrection, signs | Comments (0)

Rock

Since Easter we’ve been exploring different aspects of God’s character in our morning services. We’ve thought about the God who is there, our holy God, the God of Angel Armies, God as shepherd, ascended one, advocate. God the trinity – three in one and one in three. God our peace, God who knows, God our […]

July 22, 2019 – 10:27 am | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged challenge, comfort, corner stone, discipleship, foundations, Jesus, Mark 12:1-12, Psalm 62:1-8, rock | Comments (0)

Advocate

I’ve been on a conference this week, and on one of the days we did a Bible study on part of the first chapter of John’s gospel. It describes the time just before Jesus started his public ministry, a time when his cousin John was out in the desert outside Jerusalem, preaching and baptising. He’s […]

June 11, 2019 – 8:42 am | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged Acts 2:1-21, advocate, court, Holy Spirit, John 15:26-16:11, paraclete, Pentecost, Trinity | Comments (0)