Some of Tim's Sermons

Looking at your elbow

I wonder if you might try something for me. Would you look at your elbow? Not the bit on the inside, but the pointy bit on the outside. It’s really quite a difficult thing to do, isn’t it? If I’d asked you to look at spot just between your shoulder blades, then you’d have known […]

May 16, 2011 – 12:52 pm | By tim | Posted in Shelton | Tagged Acts 2:42-47, community, Easter, food, Holy Spirit, Jesus, joy, Pentecost, witness, worship | Comments (0)

What should we do?

I wonder how you know that Easter is over? Is it when all the Easter egg chocolate has gone? Is it when the last daffodil has faded and been mown over? Is it when it feels about time to take the Easter cards down? Of course, in the church year, Easter goes on until Pentecost, […]

May 8, 2011 – 1:48 pm | By tim | Posted in Shelton | Tagged Acts 2:36-41, baptism, Easter, Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ, Luke 24:13-35, repent, witness | Comments (0)

Bones and Breath

This week I have been talking about Easter for some of the local schools. I was at the Easter assembly at Etruscan school and the end of term communion here for St Mark’s school. At both of them I talked about why we have Easter eggs (apart from the fact that we really like chocolate). […]

April 10, 2011 – 12:08 pm | By tim | Posted in Shelton | Tagged bones, breath, Easter, Easter Sunday, Ezekiel, Ezekiel 37:1-14, Holy Spirit, Jesus, John 11:1-45, Lazarus, Life after death, prophecy, resurrection | Comments (0)

Ready to die?

Over the last few weeks the presidents of two North African countries have been deposed. There have been protests in many others. There appears to be the beginning of a civil war in Libya. There has been a huge earthquake in Christ Church, New Zealand, and another this week off the coast of Japan, both […]

March 15, 2011 – 2:32 pm | By tim | Posted in Shelton | Tagged charity, death, disaster, dying, Easter, giving, Japan, Jesus, Lent, Libya, Mark 13:5-8, materialism, prayer, repentance, Romans 8:18-26, self-examination | Comments (0)

I’ll be back…

This morning we’re going to be thinking about waiting. How good are you at waiting? How long would you have to wait for something before you’d stop believing that it was going to happen? Let’s imagine that you’ve ordered pizza for tea. The guy on the phone said it would be half an hour. How […]

March 6, 2011 – 7:07 pm | By tim | Posted in Hanley | Tagged 2 Peter 1:16-21, Christianity, discipleship, faith, God the Father, Holy Spirit, hope, Jesus, judge, King and judge, light, Matthew 17:1-9, Second Coming, transfiguration, Trinity, waiting | Comments (0)

Sheer foolishness

What do you find embarrassing? Do you have any really embarrassing memories? How do you cope with embarrassment? Does it make a difference for you if it’s you being embarrassed or somebody else? I have to say that I cope very badly with embarrassment. I hate things going wrong, and I get annoyed and angry. […]

February 20, 2011 – 1:01 pm | By tim | Posted in Shelton | Tagged discipleship, distinctiveness, foolishness, generousity, God, Jesus, Kingdom of God, Salvation, wisdom | Comments (0)

Chew it over

Last week I went to have lunch with some friends of ours. They have a little boy called Samuel who is just being weaned. His mum, Jordan, had made up a bit of baby rice and mixed in some squished up carrot or something like that, had put him in a highchair and was feeding […]

February 13, 2011 – 12:03 pm | By tim | Posted in Shelton | Tagged 1 Corinthians 3.1-9, anger, discipleship, divorce, ethics, faithfulness, hatred, honesty, Jesus, Jesus' teaching, lust, Matthew 5.21-37, maturity, Perfection, sex | Comments (0)

Spreading the news

Who knows the carol, “In the bleak mid winter”? I really like its poetic language about Jesus’ light and warmth coming into a cold, dark, and bleak world. I’m also challenged by its last verse, to bring all that I am to Jesus, because that is all that he asks of me. But, I do […]

December 26, 2010 – 2:51 pm | By tim | Posted in Hanley | Tagged Christmas, evangelism, Jesus, Luke 2:1-20, Messiah, Salvation | Comments (0)

The missing men

As many of you know, in October I spent some time in Uganda. Whilst I was there, I helped to run two conferences for the local church. At one of these, I was talking to a group of pastors and small group leaders from some of the parishes in the area. We had been talking […]

December 19, 2010 – 5:30 pm | By tim | Posted in Shelton | Tagged Advent, Christmas, Jesus, Joseph, Mary, masculinity, Matthew 1:18-25, men in church, Uganda | Comments (0)

Waiting

What are you waiting for? Here are some of things that I am waiting for. I am waiting for England to win the Ashes. I am waiting to find out where my next job will be. I am waiting to meet my new nephew in the New Year. (Nathaniel is really glad that it’s going […]

December 12, 2010 – 2:51 pm | By tim | Posted in Shelton | Tagged Advent, belief, discipleship, endurance, forbearance, gentleness, James 5:7-10, Jesus, Love, Patience, waiting | Comments (0)