Tag Archives: Jesus

Heaven’s Gate

Last week when we left Jacob, he had just pulled off a bit of a coup. In concert with his mother Rebekah, he had deceived his Father, Isaac, into blessing him rather than his older brother, Esau. Between that episode and today’s reading, things have not gone well. Shortly after Jacob’s exit from his father’s […]

January 29, 2018 – 1:00 pm | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Judge Jesus

Sev-en. Four. It’s a Ten from Len. You’re fired. It’s a Yes from me. This week’s star baker is… The catch phrases of judgement fill our media and our culture. Whether it’s judges on talent shows or pundits on Match of the Day dissecting the performance of the players and what the manager should have […]

December 3, 2017 – 1:58 pm | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (0)

The Freedom of Truth

One of the things I love about Jesus is the way in which he used a variety of different ways of teaching people. There are the stories and parables he told, which catch your imagination and make you chew away to get at the marrow, so that the working it out becomes part of the […]

September 11, 2017 – 3:32 pm | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Abandoned

Abandoned. It’s a funny word, isn’t it. It’s one of those words with a range of meanings, all with the same root, but some meanings are very negative and some are really positive. To be abandoned is one of the worst and most lonely experiences that a person can go through. To abandon yourself to […]

August 27, 2017 – 7:19 pm | By tim | Posted in Eyton | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Are you thirsty?

What is it about kids and water? That day when they come home from nursery and tell you that they’d done something really special that day. They’d had the water guns out. But there was one rule. No squirting people. They’d cleaned the garden furniture, sprayed the walls of the shed and watered the plants, […]

June 5, 2017 – 8:37 am | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (2)

Sent to those we work with

In the weeks leading up to our Easter celebrations we are exploring the way in which Jesus sends us out. This week we’re looking at the idea that we are sent to the people that we work with. Now I know that not everybody here this morning is currently in paid employment. However, that is […]

March 12, 2017 – 1:12 pm | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Look Again

Today is Vision Sunday at All Saints – it says so on the notice sheet, so it must be. Now I have to be honest and tell you that when I planned this I did not realise that this Sunday was also the first Sunday of Epiphany, it is just one of those serendipities that […]

January 9, 2017 – 4:51 pm | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Vision

I wonder if anybody recognises this gentleman. It is Kevin McCloud. Are there are any other Grand Designs fans in church this morning? For those of you who don’t watch it, the basic idea is that each episode features the building of a Grand Design, a house that is extraordinary, either because of its architecture, […]

January 8, 2017 – 5:27 pm | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

It’s All About Love

Reading John’s letters always makes me smile, he just can’t stop talking about love. He’s completely obsessed by it. Don’t forget that the first time we met John he was in a fishing boat on the lake of Galilee, probably as quite a young man. Jesus calls him and off he goes, with his brother […]

December 25, 2016 – 7:35 am | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (1)

Oh Come All Ye, Get Full

I wonder if anybody here has seen the advertising billboard on the station car park? Can anybody remember what it says? It is an advert for a KFC “Colonel’s Christmas Banquet and it says this, “Oh Come All Ye, Get Full.” See what they’ve done there, “Oh Come All Ye, Get Full.” Now, I like […]

December 12, 2016 – 1:03 pm | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (1)