Tag Archives: discipleship

How much is enough?

He ran up to Jesus. He knelt. He must have thought a lot of Jesus. He knelt in the road. He must have heard and been impressed by Jesus’ teaching. He knelt in the road, in the dust. How highly must he have rated Jesus. Have you ever run up to someone and knelt in […]

October 12, 2009 – 2:12 pm | By tim | Posted in Shelton | Tagged , , , , , | 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 , , , , , | 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 , , , | Comments (0)

Where is God?

On the third of August, 2007, a seventeen month old child was taken to a London hospital, where the child was pronounced dead. The child had very severe injuries. Now three people await sentencing for, “causing or allowing the death of a child”. During the course of the last week there has been extensive news […]

November 18, 2008 – 7:50 pm | By tim | Posted in Shelton | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Whose Image?

Put yourself in the sandals of those who had been following Jesus and learning from him. Three years ago you had a proper job. Who were you back then? Were you an outdoors type, maybe a fisherman? Were you more of an office worker, with pens, paper and calculations everywhere? Were you a widow, catching […]

October 20, 2008 – 8:08 pm | By tim | Posted in Shelton | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (0)

Are you coming or going?

This is a bar of Divine Chocolate. If anybody can work out the link between what I say this morning and Boy George then they can have it. You have until I leave the building this morning to work it out. The answer will be on next week’s notice sheet. As I was mulling over […]

September 23, 2008 – 11:30 am | By tim | Posted in Shelton | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

What do you see in the world around you?

Preached on August 13th 2008. Almost one hundred years ago two women died. On this day, in 1910, Florence Nightingale’s life ended. On this day, in 1912, Octavia Hill gave up the ghost. Both of these women had looked at the world as it was in their day, found it lacking, and set about changing […]

August 14, 2008 – 9:56 am | By tim | Posted in Shelton | Tagged , , , , , , , | 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 , , , , , , | 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 , , , , | Comments (0)

Helmet of Salvation

Equipment lists. I’m sure you’re all familiar with them. You’re starting a new school and it consists of the correct number of sweatshirts, socks, football shirts, all with name tags. You’re going to camp and it’s all sleeping bags, knives and forks and warm clothing. Name tags again. You’re off to college and it’s mostly […]

March 22, 2008 – 8:44 pm | By tim | Posted in Luton | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (0)