Some of Tim's Sermons

F’s for Fruitfulness

As some of you may know, I have a vegetable plot. It’s not a very big vegetable plot, but it has produced its first crop this year. Some spinach. Not very much spinach so far, but enough for a couple of salads and a meal for Liz and me. The rest of the plants divide […]

May 10, 2009 – 4:25 pm | By tim | Posted in Shelton | Tagged Acts 8:26-40, encouragment, forlorn, fruitfulness, John 15:1-8 | Comments (0)

What do you see?

May God be gracious to us and bless usand make his face shine upon us,that your ways may be known on earth,your salvation among all nations. The first verse of this couplet is often used in our services, words of blessing, even greetings cards. It has a lovely ring to it: May God be gracious […]

May 6, 2009 – 10:53 am | By tim | Posted in Shelton | Tagged blessing, evangelism, incarnation, John 12:44-50, mission, Psalm 67 | Comments (0)

I am Thomas

Good morning, my name is Thomas. You might have heard of me. I was one of Jesus’ disciples, been with him from when he first started going around the Jewish countryside, teaching, telling stories, healing people. Most people call me doubting Thomas because of something that happened to me at the end of Jesus’ time […]

April 19, 2009 – 6:03 pm | By tim | Posted in Shelton | Tagged belief, doubt, faith, John 20:19-31, scars, Thomas | Comments (0)

Welcome, Travel, Message

I don’t know if you have noticed but we have had a special visitor to the UK during the last week. In fact there have been lots of special visitors. The leaders of the G20 nations, the 20 richest, most influential countries on earth have been in London, with their ministers and advisors. But the […]

April 9, 2009 – 1:54 pm | By tim | Posted in Shelton | Tagged evangelism, Mark 11:1-11, mission, Palm Sunday, welcome | Comments (0)

Bending the Knee

I was at the Potteries Museum on Saturday with the rest of the family. Tabitha has been learning about the Tudors in histroy at school, and they had a Tudor day at the museum, so we all headed along to see what was going on. Well, there were a dozen or so people in Tudor […]

April 2, 2009 – 2:06 pm | By tim | Posted in Shelton | Tagged Daniel 3:14-28, discipleship, freedom, idolatory, John 8:31-42, worship | Comments (0)

Disciplined Worship

I wonder if you have house rules? And if you do, I wonder how they came to be decided. Let me give you some examples. In our house it’s my job to load the dishwasher and put it on before I go to bed. We didn’t need this rule before we had a dishwasher, and […]

March 16, 2009 – 3:04 pm | By tim | Posted in Cobridge | Tagged Exodus 20:1-17, idolatory, John 2:13-22, spiritual disciplines, worship | Comments (0)

The Top of the Hill

During the summer Tabitha and I went on an expedition. We set out at around 9:30 in the morning and caught two buses from the place we were staying to reach the place where we would start walking. The cloud base was quite low and we started walking in the cloud, with grey all around, […]

March 10, 2009 – 8:46 pm | By tim | Posted in Shelton | Tagged discipleship, Jesus, Matthew 20:17-28, the cross | Comments (0)

Fasting

Jesus was sent by the Holy Spirit into the desert for forty days. Jesus is right at the beginning of his public ministry. He had just had one of the most awesome spiritual experiences that anybody could ever have: he had been baptised, the Holy Spirit had descended into him to empower and equip him […]

March 2, 2009 – 5:21 pm | By tim | Posted in Shelton | Tagged fasting, Father, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Mark 1:9-15 | Comments (0)

What’s the choice?

I don’t have any choice. You don’t have a choice. He doesn’t have a choice. These are some of the hardest words that can be spoken or heard in today’s culture. In our country it’s all about choice. Having the right to choose. The right to choose where our kids go to school, the ability […]

February 10, 2009 – 11:42 am | By tim | Posted in Shelton | Tagged 1 Corinthians 9:16-23, choice, discernment, Holy Spirit, Isaiah 40:21-31, Jesus, Mark 1:29-39, temptation, warrior | Comments (0)

What’s Missing?

Marmalade. This is the marmalade that I made from some of the left over Christingle oranges. I know that I was warned that they were the wrong type of oranges, but I thought I’d give it a go anyway. As you can see, this marmalade is a bit on the runny side. There is something […]

January 12, 2009 – 11:49 am | By tim | Posted in Shelton | Tagged Acts 19:1-7, baptism, gifts, Holy Spirit, Mark 1:4-11 | Comments (0)