Tag Archives: judgement

Grain and Grape

Grain and grapes. Bread and wine. Simple, homely, things that appear again and again throughout the Bible. Everyday things that are used to illustrate, to symbolise, to help us get hold of deep and significant truths about God and our place in the world. Grain and grapes. Bread and wine. I’d like to invite you […]

October 1, 2019 – 1:51 pm | By tim | Posted in Eyton | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

The Messenger

I’m going to start with a confession this morning. I was rather distracted from thinking about what I was going to say this morning by Youtube videos. In my defence, it all began in a good place – I was doing some research into what the process of refining silver would have looked like in […]

December 9, 2018 – 12:57 pm | By tim | Posted in Eyton | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Soldier. Athlete. Farmer.

Having spent the last few weeks in Paul’s first letter to his friend Timothy, we now step into the second. The context is similar for Timothy, he is still in Ephesus, leading the church there. It seems, however, that Paul’s suffering has increased as he is imprisoned in Rome, and his reflections on that lead […]

May 15, 2018 – 11:48 am | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (2)

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)

Free Indeed

“It was badly done, indeed! You, whom she had known from an infant, whom she had seen grow up from a period when her notice was an honour, to have you now, in thoughtless spirits, and the pride of the moment, laugh at her, humble her–and before her niece, too–and before others, many of whom […]

May 8, 2017 – 11:49 am | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (2)

Babel: Scattering, Unity, Pride

We are coming towards the end of our sermon series, taking us from the beginnings of creation to the call of Abram. Now, I have not been here for the rest of the series and, because of other services that have interrupted the series, it’s actually been a couple of weeks since any of us […]

November 14, 2016 – 4:04 pm | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (3)

Fruitful, Inviting, Growing

Who knows what this is? Yes, it’s a fig. Perhaps you might be more familiar with them in that classic English tea time treat – the fig roll. Has anyone here ever grown these things? I was going to say that I thought you had to grow them under glass in the UK, but a […]

March 4, 2013 – 11:50 am | By tim | Posted in Darby End | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Stirring it up a bit

So, here we are on the last Sunday of the Christian year. In the BCP tradition it is “Stir up” Sunday, a nickname that came from the first line of the BCP collect for this Sunday, “Stir up, O Lord, the wills of your faithful people, “ a prayer that we will pray later, after […]

November 22, 2011 – 10:34 am | By tim | Posted in Sherrifhales, Tong | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)