Some of Tim's Sermons

Speaking into Silence

I wonder how you feel about silence. What your story of silence is. Last week, when I went on retreat before my ordination, we spent a fair amount of time in what we called silence. But it wasn’t really. Although we weren’t speaking to each other, there was still the sound of the pipes rattling […]

June 30, 2009 – 1:01 pm | By tim | Posted in Shelton | Tagged God's voice, Isaiah 40:1-11, John the Baptist, Luke 1:57-66, mission, silence | Comments (0)

Children of God

I’m really pleased to be here, with the opportunity to preach this morning. Of course, I’m always enjoy preaching, especially to such a fine bunch of folks as you lot, but today I’m especially excited. That is because today is Trinity Sunday, and I love the Trinity. I think that it is one of the […]

June 9, 2009 – 12:23 pm | By tim | Posted in Shelton | Tagged Father, glory, heirs, Holy Spirit, identity, John 3:1-17, Romans 8:12-17, Son, suffering, Trinity | Comments (0)

Chosen?

“You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last.” Jesus spoke these words to his friends and followers nearly two thousand years ago, and I believe that he continues to speak them to us today. Maybe it will help us to hear them […]

June 2, 2009 – 10:32 am | By tim | Posted in Cobridge | Tagged Acts 10:44-48, chosen, fruitfulness, John 15:9-17 | Comments (0)

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)