Some of Tim's Sermons

Pentecost 2024

I wonder if you can remember your first day doing a new thing. Maybe your first day at school, or at secondary school. Your first day of a new job, maybe your first job. How about your first day of being married. Your first day in a new house or a new town. I wonder […]

May 19, 2024 – 11:43 am | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged Acts 2:1-21, John 16:1-15 | Comments (0)

A Last Prayer

I wonder if you’ve got a summer holiday booked. There’s a lot to get ready for a holiday isn’t there. There’s the planning when and where you’re going to go. Then sorting out passports and insurance if you need them. Closer to the time you’ve got to pack, decide what’s going with you and what’s […]

May 13, 2024 – 2:56 pm | By tim | Posted in Eyton | Tagged 1 John 5:9-13, John 17:6-19 | Comments (0)

Light

This evening we are beginning new series for our evening services in which we are going to be exploring 1 John. As this is the first in the series, we are going to begin by filling in a bit of the background to the letter, and having a think about who wrote it and why. […]

May 7, 2024 – 8:35 am | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged 1 John 1:1-7, John 1:19-31, light | Comments (0)

Getting Involved in Hospitality

I wonder what you think of when you hear the word, “hospitality”. For me the phrase “hospitality industry” comes to mind. A catch all term for hotels, restaurants, cafes and that type of thing. To my mind it’s a slightly strange combination of terms, the idea that hospitality can be an industry. There’s certainly a […]

May 5, 2024 – 11:51 am | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged 1 Peter 4:1-11, Luke 22:7-20 | Comments (0)

Getting Involved in Prayer

We have been thinking about prayer this morning. I want to focus on how we can be involved in prayer. Our reading was of a very famous prayer, called the Lord’s prayer. It came about because Jesus friends saw him praying and asking him to teach them to pray. They wanted to be involved in […]

April 28, 2024 – 11:42 am | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged Luke 11:1-4, prayer | Comments (0)

Love

I’m going to begin this morning by reading a few verses from different books in the Bible, and I wonder if anyone can work out what they have in common? Matthew: “As soon as Jesus was baptised, he went up out of the water. At that moment heaven was opened, and he saw the Spirit […]

April 21, 2024 – 12:56 pm | By tim | Posted in Eyton | Tagged 1 John 3:16-24, John 10:11-18 | Comments (0)

Restoration

Over the last few months in our evening services we have been exploring some of the great stories of Scripture, and how they might shape our lives and our sense of God’s mission and our mission in the world. We’ve talked about creation, vocation, liberation, formation, limitation and incarnation. We’ve discovered that we have been […]

April 9, 2024 – 8:39 am | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged Acts 16:11-15, Ephesians 1:1-14 | Comments (0)

Getting Involved in the Body

In a bacon-and-egg breakfast, what’s the difference between the Chicken and the Pig? The Chicken is involved, but the Pig commits! This little riddle is used widely in motivational talks in a wide variety of contexts, from sports managers firing up their team before a match, to sales directors encouraging their sales teams to give […]

April 7, 2024 – 11:38 am | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged Ephesians 4:1-16, John 21:15-22 | Comments (0)

Palm Sunday 2024

Today’s sermon is brought to you by the letter C. The first “C” in our sermon is the colt. Does anybody know what a colt is? It’s a young horse, or in this case – donkey. Who can give me an action to help us remember the colt? Why is it important that Jesus rode […]

March 24, 2024 – 2:05 pm | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged Mark 11:1-11, Palm Sunday | Comments (0)

Limitations

A few years ago I went down to London with Liz to see a show. Having a few hours to kill in the afternoon, we went to visit the British Museum. In one of the galleries there is a pair of three and a half metre tall statues. They show a winged lion with a […]

February 27, 2024 – 2:26 pm | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged Christian, Daniel, Daniel 1:8-16, Daniel 8:15-27, Limitation | Comments (2)