Tag Archives: Jesus

Together at Christmas

Who knows what this is? It’s a toasting fork. On Friday my Dad and I went to the British Ironwork centre just outside Oswestry and spent a couple of hours in the forge there having a blacksmithing lesson. My Dad made a poker for the stove on his canal boat, and I made a toasting […]

December 11, 2016 – 5:28 pm | By tim | Posted in Eyton | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

Inspiring Hope. Warning of Danger.

I wonder if you can guess when these were said? • “Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further developments.” • “The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon.” • “Before man reaches the moon, your mail […]

December 4, 2016 – 1:03 pm | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (0)

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)

What is the Bible?

Over the next few months we’re going to be thinking about the Bible. Between now and Christmas we will look at the questions: What is the Bible? Why do we read the Bible? How do we read the Bible? This afternoon we’re starting with “What is the Bible”. Andrew has already started us off down […]

September 21, 2015 – 7:30 am | By tim | Posted in Sunday Afternoon Thing | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Greatness

How do you measure greatness? This question crops up perennially in the sports sections of the newspapers and internet. A few weeks ago Wayne Rooney scored against Switzerland and became England’s all time leading goalscorer. Cue lots of media discussion if this meant that he was now the greatest England striker of all time. Was […]

September 20, 2015 – 11:32 am | By tim | Posted in Priorslee | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Bleeding. Dying.

There is an American writer called A.J. Jacobs who a few years ago published a book called, ‘A Year of Living Biblically’ In this book he recounted his attempt to live for twelve months, keeping all of the Old Testament laws and regulations. He describes a time when he was having an argument with his […]

June 28, 2015 – 3:23 pm | By tim | Posted in Oakengates, Uncategorized, Wrockwardine Wood | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

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)

That I may see

In a moment I would like us to go on a journey in our imagination to Jericho, to experience this meeting between Jesus and the blind man. Before we do that, though, I would like to fill in a bit of the background for us. The first bit of background is to do with what […]

May 18, 2015 – 11:26 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)