Tag Archives: discipleship

I’ll be back…

This morning we’re going to be thinking about waiting. How good are you at waiting? How long would you have to wait for something before you’d stop believing that it was going to happen? Let’s imagine that you’ve ordered pizza for tea. The guy on the phone said it would be half an hour. How […]

March 6, 2011 – 7:07 pm | By tim | Posted in Hanley | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Sheer foolishness

What do you find embarrassing? Do you have any really embarrassing memories? How do you cope with embarrassment? Does it make a difference for you if it’s you being embarrassed or somebody else? I have to say that I cope very badly with embarrassment. I hate things going wrong, and I get annoyed and angry. […]

February 20, 2011 – 1:01 pm | By tim | Posted in Shelton | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Chew it over

Last week I went to have lunch with some friends of ours. They have a little boy called Samuel who is just being weaned. His mum, Jordan, had made up a bit of baby rice and mixed in some squished up carrot or something like that, had put him in a highchair and was feeding […]

February 13, 2011 – 12:03 pm | By tim | Posted in Shelton | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Waiting

What are you waiting for? Here are some of things that I am waiting for. I am waiting for England to win the Ashes. I am waiting to find out where my next job will be. I am waiting to meet my new nephew in the New Year. (Nathaniel is really glad that it’s going […]

December 12, 2010 – 2:51 pm | By tim | Posted in Shelton | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Breaking the power of sin

I wonder why you are here today.  I am here because I believe that the overcoming of sin in peoples’ lives is one of the most encouraging and vigorous demonstrations of the power of the risen Christ, and I want to see more of it.  If we are to see more of this power, then […]

December 6, 2010 – 2:57 pm | By tim | Posted in Shelton | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

A sign for the times

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 24, 2010 – 10:55 pm | By tim | Posted in Shelton | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Love and Obey

I’ve just finished reading a novel which took the form of a parable of a man’s journey to faith. This guy is a technology whizz kid, and at one stage he decides that the best way for him to help people follow Jesus is to go through the Bible and draw together all Jesus’ teaching […]

May 9, 2010 – 11:53 am | By tim | Posted in Shelton | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Who’s your hero?

Thirty-eight thousand, four hundred pounds. What could you buy with that amount of money? You could buy a very nice car. You could buy 102,000 pints of milk. Or you could buy a pair of football boots, which is exactly what somebody did this week. What was it about these boots that made them so […]

February 28, 2010 – 4:51 pm | By tim | Posted in Cobridge | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

Obedience, worship, and faith

Have you ever seen one of those films in which some of the characters find their way into a treasure hoard? They run from side to side, not knowing where to start looking at things. They pick one thing up and then dash over to the other side of the room as another jewel catches […]

February 8, 2010 – 12:42 pm | By tim | Posted in Shelton | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

A Call to Action

On the 13th of May, 1940, a new Prime Minister stood up to speak in the Palace of Westminster. It was his first speech to the House of Commons, having replaced the previous leader of the government three days earlier. As the United Kingdom prepared to enter perhaps the most dangerous period of the war, […]

November 12, 2009 – 12:55 pm | By tim | Posted in Shelton | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)