Some of Tim's Sermons

King of the Jews

Do you ever see a road sign when you’re driving along and think, “Thanks for letting me know but what am I meant to do about it?” I mean, if I see a road sign with a 30 on it, then I know what that means – I’m meant to drive at no more than […]

November 20, 2022 – 3:36 pm | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged Biblical people in Islam, Colossians 1:9-14, Conversations with God, God in Christianity, Guanabara Confession of Faith, Jesus, Luke 23:33-43, Messianism, Prophets of Islam, Rabbis of the Land of Israel, Religion | Comments (2)

Remembrance 2022

I wonder what you think when you see All Saints church building. Maybe you don’t think very much at all. But just consider it a moment. Imposing, square, stone, set well in its grounds, overlooking the town, as if it’s been here forever, and always will be. But, of course, it hasn’t been here forever. […]

November 13, 2022 – 12:41 pm | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged 2 Thessalonians 3:6-13, Apostasy in Christianity, Christianity, Christology, Conditional preservation of the saints, Creative works, Gospel of Luke, Jesus, Luke 21:5-19, Religion, resurrection, Resurrection of Jesus | Comments (0)

All Saints Day

“I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better.” Over the last couple of months we’ve been exploring discipleship together. We’ve asked ourselves the question, “how close am I to Jesus?” We’ve thought about […]

November 6, 2022 – 12:44 pm | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged Carolyn Gillette, Christian theology, Christianity, God the Father, His Church, Jesus Christ, Paul, Religion, revelation | Comments (0)

Who do you say I am?

“Who do you think you are?” This used to be an aggressive question designed to take someone who was taking liberties down a peg or two. Nowadays it’s more commonly associated with the television programme of the same name, in which celebrities investigate their family trees to uncover interesting links between their lives and the […]

October 30, 2022 – 12:33 pm | By tim | Posted in Eyton | Tagged Biblical people in Islam, Christ, Christology, Elijah, Entering heaven alive, Isaiah 35:1-9, Jesus, John the Baptist, Luke 9:18-27, Messiah, Messiah in Judaism, Prophets of Islam, Religion, Religious perspectives on Jesus | Comments (0)

Job – All of it

This evening we are diving into the story of Job. We’ve had two readings from the book of Job, but actually we are going to take the opportunity to look at the whole of the book. Even for one of our longer, Dive, sermons, this is quite an undertaking, and we’re not going to be […]

October 25, 2022 – 11:45 am | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged angels, Bible, Book of Job, Fallen angels, God, Is God, Jesus, Job, Job 38:1-21, Job 42:1-6, Job in Islam, Job's Wife, Prophets of Islam, Question, Religion, Satan | Comments (0)

Helpful Hands

As many of you will know, we are spending some time this autumn thinking about discipleship, which means following Jesus and learning from him. A summary of what we’re exploring is in this leaflet about discipleship, prepared by the Mission and Discipleship Action Group. If you don’t have a copy please do pick one up […]

October 16, 2022 – 11:51 am | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged Ephesians 4:1-16, John 13:1-17 | Comments (0)

Helpful Habits

I wonder if you have a favourite book, TV show, film, piece of music, or piece of art. That thing that you go back to time and time again. It doesn’t matter that you’ve read it, or listened to it, or seen if before. It doesn’t matter that you know the characters, or that you […]

October 9, 2022 – 11:39 am | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged Carolyn Gillette, Catholic spirituality, Christian prayer, Human behavior, Jesus, Lord's prayer, Matthew 6:5-15, Mental prayer, prayer, Psalm 119:9-16, Religion, Rosary, Spiritual practice, Spirituality | Comments (0)

Close and Centred

A few weeks ago I began our exploration of discipleship, and what it means to be a disciple of Jesus. We talked about the ideas of following and of learning – that being a disciple of Jesus means to follow Jesus and to learn from Jesus. I gave a bit of an overview of how […]

October 2, 2022 – 11:31 am | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged Acts 6:8-15, Carpenters, Christology, Conditional preservation of the saints, Criticism of Jesus, Exorcists, God in Christianity, Jesus, Life of Jesus in the New Testament, Luke 10:38-42, Rabbis of the Land of Israel | Comments (0)

Sheep and Goats

Before we dive into the text that we are focussing on this evening, let’s take a step back and look at the context in which Jesus originally shared it. The first thing to note is that this is the end of one section of Matthew’s eye witness account of the good news of Jesus. If […]

September 27, 2022 – 8:05 am | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged Caiaphas, Christianity, Christology, Deities, Here Jesus, James 2:14-26, Jerusalem, Jesus, Life of Jesus in the New Testament, Mark 13, Matthew 25:31-46, Messianism, Prophets of Islam, Rabbis of the Land of Israel, Religion, Son of Man | Comments (0)

King

This morning’s reading from Paul’s letter to Timothy is a bit of a gift to a preacher, with all the things that are going on in our world at the moment, so you won’t be surprised to hear that we are going to be focussing on that this morning. For those of you perplexed at […]

September 18, 2022 – 2:25 pm | By tim | Posted in Eyton | Tagged 1 Timothy 2:1-7, Catholic spirituality, Christian prayer, Human behavior, Jesus Christ, Luke 16:1-13, Mental prayer, Paul, prayer, Prayer in the New Testament, Religion, Rosary, Spiritual practice, Spirituality | Comments (0)