Some of Tim's Sermons

Tabernacles

I don’t know if this ever happens to you, sometimes I get home from an evening meeting and my wife will be sat watching the TV. Now, if it’s Casualty, then it’s fairly straightforward. I know basically who everybody is, the plot is fairly predictable and so, if I wanted to, I could pick up […]

March 23, 2008 – 4:55 pm | By tim | Posted in Littleover | Tagged Hearing God, hermenutics, Jesus, John 7:14-36, prayer, Tabernacles, Temple | Comments (0)

Community in Kindness

This week we continue our series of services on the theme of building community. Each week we have been looking at the ways in which the work of God, the Holy Spirit, can be seen in the building up of our community. We have looked at love, joy, peace, and now we come to kindness. […]

March 23, 2008 – 4:46 pm | By tim | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged community, Fruit of the Spirit, Galatians 5:22, Holy Spirit, James 1:19-27, Jesus, John 19:26-27, kindness, Luke 19:1-10, Luke 6:27-36 | Comments (0)

Unchanging:Prayer:Mouths:Jesus

Unchanging Daniel’s enemies thought that they knew what couldn’t be changed. They thought that they knew what was permanent. They thought that rules and regulations and laws couldn’t be changed. They wanted to destroy Daniel, so they watched him. They couldn’t find anything wrong with the way he went about his business or how he […]

March 23, 2008 – 4:41 pm | By tim | Posted in Littleover | Tagged Daniel 6, Jesus, prayer, unchanging | Comments (0)

Slavery and Freedom

This sermon was put together with the help of “Keystone”, the youth group at St Peter’s Church, Littleover. I really enjoyed spending some time with them over a couple of weeks, thinking about what it is to be Christlike, and particularly about this teaching from Jesus. This passage is about freedom and slavery, truth and […]

March 23, 2008 – 4:30 pm | By tim | Posted in Littleover | Tagged death, discipleship, freedom, John 8:31-36, slavery, Tabernacles, the cross | Comments (0)

Exiled

Happy New Year. You might think that this is a bit of an odd thing to say, but we’re in church, and the church can be a bit odd. One of the ways that it is odd, is that the church year begins about four weeks before Christmas, on the first Sunday of Advent, which […]

March 23, 2008 – 4:12 pm | By tim | Posted in Littleover | Tagged Advent, exile, goodness, Isaiah 52:1-15, Kingdom, Matthew 24:1-28, peace, salvation | Comments (0)

Shield of Faith

What is it that is distinctive about the shield as a piece of armour that might say something important to us about the nature of faith. Imagine a Roman battle field. In the middle of the fight you see a person, isolated, sheltering behind a shield. It’s a fairly big shield, about as tall and […]

March 23, 2008 – 4:02 pm | By tim | Posted in Nottingham | Tagged armour of God, Ephesians 6:16, faith, prayer, spiritual battle | Comments (0)

Why Pray?

As natural as breathing. That’s how people describe something that just happens, something you don’t have to think about it, something your body looks after for you. Nobody asks Why breathe? It’s obvious. If you don’t breathe you’re going to die. And we don’t ask, “Why breathe?” because, generally, that’s not much chance of us […]

March 23, 2008 – 3:57 pm | By tim | Posted in Luton | Tagged Luke 18:1-14, prayer | Comments (0)

Persecuted for Righteousness?

Summer’s finally here, so we’ve been told all this week. The thermometer’s hit the roof, and pallid knees are being exposed across the nation. Summer’s here so are we in shape for it? It’s been a tough week this week. Lots going on, and to top it off, preparing something to say this morning. And […]

March 22, 2008 – 9:18 pm | By tim | Posted in Luton | Tagged beatitudes, hermenutics, Matthew 5:10, persecution | Comments (0)

Encountering God in Work

Last week, Charlie talked about the various amounts of time that he’d calculated he would be spending in various activities in his life. Now, I reckon that I’m going to spend about 83,200 hours of my life working, about 20% of my waking hours. That’s quite a big chunk and if I’m not Encountering God […]

March 22, 2008 – 9:11 pm | By tim | Posted in Luton | Tagged encountering God, work | Comments (0)

Advent 4 – Mary

During Advent, this time of waiting and preparation before Christmas, our services have been themed around, “The Return of the King”. We started by thinking about the quality of our wait for the return of our King, Jesus. Are we fearful, unsure what to expect, or expectant and focussed. We went on to start thinking […]

March 22, 2008 – 9:07 pm | By tim | Posted in Luton | Tagged Advent, discipleship, Luke 1:26-38, Mary, obedience | Comments (0)