Spirit Rest

I wonder if you have ever sat watching a fire. Maybe a hearth fire at home, round a fire pit, or at a bonfire. There’s something mesmerising about the movement of the flame, lifelike but not, random patterns, but within boundaries of expectation, the energy, the flow. It’s so fascinating that some people have video […]

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June 8, 2025 – 12:22 pm | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged | Comments (0)

God of Mercy

The people of God were far from home. Their country had been invaded and defeated. The best of them had been forced to leave their homes and relocate to the capital of the empire that had overcome them. They had to learn a new language, live in a strange culture. They were exiled. For decades […]

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May 18, 2025 – 12:02 pm | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Messiah?

This week we have been remembering and celebrating VE Day. In the Spring and Summer months of 1945 countless men and women were coming home from the war to be reunited with their families. I wonder if amongst all those children, excited at the prospect of seeing their fathers for the first time in 3,4,5 […]

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May 11, 2025 – 11:20 am | By tim | Posted in Eyton | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Creator God

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” “A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away. “Is this the real life, is this just fantasy? These are the first lines from “A Tale of Two Cities”, “Star Wars”, and “Bohemian Rhapsody”. Any writer will tell you that the first […]

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May 4, 2025 – 1:00 pm | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged , | Comments (0)

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 […]

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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 […]

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

Others and Mothers

I’ve found my self thinking and talking about this passage from Luke’s historical account of Jesus’ life and ministry a lot recently. It was the passage that had been set for Wednesday lunchtime communion last week at All Saints, and so I spoke on it at the care home communions that I went to as […]

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March 30, 2025 – 11:20 am | By tim | Posted in Eyton | 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, […]

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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 […]

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

Blessings?

This morning we meet Jesus on a journey between two places. Our reading from Luke’s historical account of Jesus’ life and ministry began, “And he came down with them.” Which prompts the questions. Where did he come down from and who is “them”? To find the answers to these questions we need to look back […]

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February 16, 2025 – 11:23 am | By tim | Posted in Eyton | Tagged , | Comments (0)