Some of Tim's Sermons

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)

Breaking the power of sin

I wonder why you are here today. I am here because I believe that the overcoming of sin in peoples’ lives is one of the most encouraging and vigorous demonstrations of the power of the risen Christ, and I want to see more of it. If we are to see more of this power, then […]

December 6, 2010 – 2:57 pm | By tim | Posted in Shelton | Tagged Confession, Daniel 9:1-19, Deanery Service of Penitence and Reconcilation, discipleship, Divine grace, Forgiveness, Luke 11:1-4, Sacrament of Confession, Salvation, sin | Comments (0)

A sign for the times

Do you ever see a road sign when you’re driving along and think, “Thanks for letting me know but what am I meant to do about it?” I mean, if I see a road sign with a 30 on it, then I know what that means – I’m meant to drive at no more than […]

November 24, 2010 – 10:55 pm | By tim | Posted in Shelton | Tagged Christ the King, Colossians 1:9-20, discipleship, endurance, Fruit of the Spirit, fruitfulness, Jesus, King, Luke 23:33-43 | Comments (0)

Insisting on hope

“Those who will not work, shall not eat.” That was the phrase that grabbed my attention as I was looking at the Bible readings for this morning. “Those who will not work, shall not eat.” The reason that it grabbed my attention is that it sounded like it could have been a headline from one […]

November 14, 2010 – 4:01 pm | By tim | Posted in Shelton | Tagged 2 Thessalonians 3:6-13, community, Divine grace, Forgiveness, hope, Jesus, politics, repentance, resurrection, Scapegoat, welfare reform | Comments (0)

God works everything out?

Our reading from Ephesians this morning jumps right into the middle of this letter’s opening paragraph, a hymn of praise to God. In this praise we find an important truth about God. “He works everything out in conformity with the purpose of his will.” I find this to be quite a difficult thing to understand. […]

November 9, 2010 – 10:18 pm | By tim | Posted in Shelton | Tagged Ephesians 1:11-23, evil, God's will, Holy Spirit, hope, inheritance, Kingdom, Kingdom of God, Perfection, power, riches, Salvation, suffering | Comments (0)