Some of Tim's Sermons

Lost and Found

I wonder what it feels like to be totally lost. As I was thinking about what I was going to say this morning, I was trying to remember a time when I have been lost, and I couldn’t. Of course there have been times when I’ve had difficulty finding the way to the place that […]

September 12, 2010 – 3:30 pm | By tim | Posted in Shelton | Tagged coin, found, joy, lost, Luke 15:1-10, mission, sheep, shepherd | Comments (0)

See that you do not refuse Him.

I would like to tell you a story this morning about two ways of living.One way of living is one in which people are bent over, infirm, bound up, afraid, under law, in fear of punishment, surrounded by darkness.The other way of living is one in which there is freedom, release, healing, life, joy, assurance […]

September 7, 2010 – 1:30 pm | By tim | Posted in Shelton | Tagged choice, Egypt, healing, Hebrews 12:18-29, intimacy, law, Levites, Luke 13:10-17, Moses, Red Sea, Sabbath, Sinai, worship | Comments (0)

Dancing to the music of the future

Someone once said that hope is hearing the music of the future and faith is dancing to it. Both our readings this morning are about Christian faith. There are three things that I’d like to draw out from them that I believe we need to get our heads round if we are to follow Jesus […]

August 8, 2010 – 5:03 pm | By tim | Posted in Shelton | Tagged faith, God's promises, Hebrews 11:1-16, Luke 12:32-40 | Comments (0)

Their mission, our mission.

In May we had the opportunity to meet together and explore ways of “sharing good news”. A couple of weeks ago we had the Canals Festival. In this next week we are visiting homes in Etruria, surveying people’s thoughts about the community that they live in, about God, and about the church. Tomorrow night we […]

July 11, 2010 – 3:28 pm | By tim | Posted in Shelton | Tagged evangelism, Jesus, Luke 10:1-20, Matthew 28:18-20, mission, Names and titles of Jesus in the New Testament | Comments (0)

Telling the Wonders of God

I wonder if you ever watch those TV programmes or films where they have messed around with the timeline? You know the kind of thing, the film starts with a wedding and then the rest of the film is flashbacks to things that have happened in the lead up to the wedding. Through all the […]

June 8, 2010 – 11:30 am | By tim | Posted in Shelton | Tagged Acts 2:1-21, Baptism with the Holy Spirit, evangelism, Holy Spirit, Jesus, John 14:8-27, Pentecost, witness | Comments (0)

A Place of Prayer

I’d like to take you on a journey this morning. As we travel we will stop off at various places, meet different people and hear what is being said. As we travel, I’d like to encourage you to think about similar journeys that you have taken, or maybe that you are on at the moment. […]

May 17, 2010 – 4:01 pm | By tim | Posted in Shelton | Tagged Acts 16:16-34, Christian prayer, evangelism, Greece, miracles, Paul, Philippi, prayer, Silas, Spirituality, worship | Comments (0)

Love and Obey

I’ve just finished reading a novel which took the form of a parable of a man’s journey to faith. This guy is a technology whizz kid, and at one stage he decides that the best way for him to help people follow Jesus is to go through the Bible and draw together all Jesus’ teaching […]

May 9, 2010 – 11:53 am | By tim | Posted in Shelton | Tagged Acts 16:9-15, discipleship, Jesus, John 14:23-29, Love, obedience, obey, peace, teaching | Comments (0)

Heights of love

I was up at Northwood Stadium the other day, and I saw some young people being coached in high jump. The coach had laid out some cones in a half circle, and was asking the athletes to run up to, and past, the high jump bar in a kind of “c” shape, without actually jumping. […]

May 4, 2010 – 12:28 pm | By tim | Posted in Cobridge | Tagged Acts 11:1-18, coach, Dick Fosbury, Fosbury Flop, high jump, John 13:31-35, Love, sacrifice, self-giving | Comments (0)

Yearning

Have you ever watched a dog on a lead? Of course, just like people, every dog is different but it seems to me that in the main they fall into four different categories. Firstly are those who you see going for a walk who just amble alongside their owners, maybe a bit lazy, maybe a […]

March 22, 2010 – 4:05 pm | By tim | Posted in Shelton | Tagged John 12:1-8, Philippi, Philippians 3:4-14, presence of God, worship | Comments (0)

Who’s your hero?

Thirty-eight thousand, four hundred pounds. What could you buy with that amount of money? You could buy a very nice car. You could buy 102,000 pints of milk. Or you could buy a pair of football boots, which is exactly what somebody did this week. What was it about these boots that made them so […]

February 28, 2010 – 4:51 pm | By tim | Posted in Cobridge | Tagged discipleship, example, hero, Philippians 3:17-21 | Comments (0)