Some of Tim's Sermons

Getting Involved in Prayer

We have been thinking about prayer this morning. I want to focus on how we can be involved in prayer. Our reading was of a very famous prayer, called the Lord’s prayer. It came about because Jesus friends saw him praying and asking him to teach them to pray. They wanted to be involved in […]

April 28, 2024 – 11:42 am | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged Luke 11:1-4, prayer | Comments (0)

Love

I’m going to begin this morning by reading a few verses from different books in the Bible, and I wonder if anyone can work out what they have in common? Matthew: “As soon as Jesus was baptised, he went up out of the water. At that moment heaven was opened, and he saw the Spirit […]

April 21, 2024 – 12:56 pm | By tim | Posted in Eyton | Tagged 1 John 3:16-24, John 10:11-18 | Comments (0)

Restoration

Over the last few months in our evening services we have been exploring some of the great stories of Scripture, and how they might shape our lives and our sense of God’s mission and our mission in the world. We’ve talked about creation, vocation, liberation, formation, limitation and incarnation. We’ve discovered that we have been […]

April 9, 2024 – 8:39 am | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged Acts 16:11-15, Ephesians 1:1-14 | Comments (0)

Getting Involved in the Body

In a bacon-and-egg breakfast, what’s the difference between the Chicken and the Pig? The Chicken is involved, but the Pig commits! This little riddle is used widely in motivational talks in a wide variety of contexts, from sports managers firing up their team before a match, to sales directors encouraging their sales teams to give […]

April 7, 2024 – 11:38 am | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged Ephesians 4:1-16, John 21:15-22 | Comments (0)

Palm Sunday 2024

Today’s sermon is brought to you by the letter C. The first “C” in our sermon is the colt. Does anybody know what a colt is? It’s a young horse, or in this case – donkey. Who can give me an action to help us remember the colt? Why is it important that Jesus rode […]

March 24, 2024 – 2:05 pm | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged Mark 11:1-11, Palm Sunday | Comments (0)

Limitations

A few years ago I went down to London with Liz to see a show. Having a few hours to kill in the afternoon, we went to visit the British Museum. In one of the galleries there is a pair of three and a half metre tall statues. They show a winged lion with a […]

February 27, 2024 – 2:26 pm | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged Christian, Daniel, Daniel 1:8-16, Daniel 8:15-27, Limitation | Comments (2)

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 1 Corinthians 14:1-6, Matthew 1:18-24, prophecy | 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 Luke 6:43-49, Psalm 37:1-7 | 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 Ezekiel 47:1-12, John 12:1-11 | 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 1 Thessalonians 5:16-24, John 1:6-28 | Comments (0)