Some of Tim's Sermons

What does it mean?

This time last year I was just getting ready to start running the Potters ‘Arf. This year’s participants are gathering now, as we meet, ready to set off at 10:30 on their 13 and a bit mile journey around the city. Just over an hour later the winner will finish, with the rest of the […]

June 12, 2011 – 10:30 am | By tim | Posted in Shelton | Tagged Acts 2:1-21, Easter, evangelism, Holy Spirit, Pentecost, witness | Comments (0)

Be kind, rewind.

Do you ever read books or watch films or TV series where the timeline has been messed around with. I watched a film the other day where the first five minutes of the film showed a man grieving over the death of his mother, and then it cut to a scene with the subtitle “two […]

June 6, 2011 – 11:38 am | By tim | Posted in Shelton | Tagged Acts 1:6-14, Ascension, discipleship, Easter, Holy Spirit, Jesus, John 17:1-11, Messy Church, Pentecost, Perfection, witness | Comments (0)

Getting stoned?

I used to have a boss who was never really comfortable if everything was going well. At those times when we were on course to hit target, we had just the right number of cars in stock, the sun was shining and there was no crisis for us to grapple with did he relax and […]

May 22, 2011 – 3:34 pm | By tim | Posted in Shelton | Tagged Acts 7:55-60, Easter, Forgiveness, God's glory, Holy Spirit, hope, Jesus, offense, Pentecost, witness | Comments (0)

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)