Tag Archives: God

Forgiveness: Letting off. Letting go. Letting in.

“Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us.” Is a well done phrase from a well known prayer. We will pray it ourselves in a little while. This theme comes up repeatedly in Jesus’ teaching to his followers, that the forgiveness we receive is dependent on the forgiveness that we give […]

September 19, 2016 – 7:57 am | By tim | Posted in Priorslee | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Referee?

Who’d be a referee? There you are, in the middle of it all, players trying to fool you, see what they can get away with, persuade you. Everybody on the touch line second guessing your decisions, questioning your parenthood, suggesting you should go to Specsavers. If you have a perfect performance no one notices you, […]

July 18, 2016 – 9:40 am | By tim | Posted in Wellington, Wrockwardine Wood | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (1)

That I may hear

Today’s reading is from the account of Jesus’ life written by John. In the first half of his book, John shares some of Jesus’ teaching and the miraculous signs that he did to show that he was the Son of God. In the second half of his book, John shares in detail the things that […]

June 22, 2015 – 8:33 am | By tim | Posted in Sunday Afternoon Thing | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Throne Room

This evening I would like to invite you to consider your place in the throne room of God. In today’s western democracy we don’t think much about thrones, or at least I don’t, but Hebrews was written in a world where throne rooms really were the seat of power. They were the places of council, […]

May 18, 2015 – 11:21 am | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

In Spirit and Truth

Today we’re thinking about worship, and in particular about worshipping God and what that means. In a minute we’re going to look in more detail at this conversation between Jesus and the woman at the well. Before we do that, though, I thought it might be useful to look at an example of worship that […]

March 16, 2015 – 10:22 am | By tim | Posted in Priorslee | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

What would Jesus say to the sick?

When Mark suggested that I might like to come and preach here at All Saints, I was very pleased to accept the invitation. When he told me that the subject was “What would Jesus say to the sick” I was even more pleased and also a little daunted. I was pleased because this is a […]

October 23, 2011 – 3:57 pm | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (1)

Learn, leap, lean

To steal a cliché from the world of sport, it’s a game of two halves, you know. Well, we are now half way through our series thinking about the armour of God. We’ve got our belt of truth, holding everything together. We’ve got our breastplate of righteousness, protecting our hearts. We’ve got our sandals on, […]

July 18, 2011 – 10:35 am | By tim | Posted in Shelton | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (2)

Protecting our hearts

You may have picked up from being here last week, or from the slightly different format of the notice sheet, that we are doing something a bit different at the moment in our Bible readings and sermon. For this six week period, leading up to the summer, we are going through this section of Paul’s […]

July 4, 2011 – 1:29 pm | By tim | Posted in Shelton | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

What is sin like?

This morning I would like us to think about the passage we heard read from Paul’s letter to the church in Rome. Because of their situation, the people who were part of this church understood one thing very clearly, but needed something else explained to them. They understood slavery and they needed sin to be […]

June 27, 2011 – 2:45 pm | By tim | Posted in Birches Head | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments (2)

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)