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A Tale of Two Cities

Some weeks as a preacher, it’s like the sermons write themselves. A nice, straight forward parable, a heart warming encouragement, something about God’s love. Those are the easy weeks. Recent weeks have not really been like that for me. Last Sunday morning at St Catherine’s we were looking at Jesus’ teaching on divorce. This morning […]

October 15, 2018 – 10:28 am | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Show me the money?

I work all night, I work all day, to pay the bills I have to pay Ain’t it sad And still there never seems to be a single penny left for me That’s too bad In my dreams I have a plan If I got me a wealthy man I wouldn’t have to work at […]

October 14, 2018 – 1:18 pm | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (0)

Money, money, money.

What do you earn? How much money do you have? What do you spend it on? These are questions that aren’t heard much in polite conversation in this country. We tend to be quite uncomfortable talking about money. Which is a bit odd, since it is such an important part of our lives, or maybe […]

September 17, 2017 – 3:20 pm | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

The Rubber Hits the Road

You know, sometimes Jesus says some uncomfortable things and this morning’s reading from Mark’s eyewitness account of Jesus’ life has to contain some of his most uncomfortable teaching. We are just about exactly half way through Mark’s book, and this is the turning point. Up to now we’ve seen Jesus teaching, healing, and performing miracles […]

March 1, 2015 – 12:30 pm | By tim | Posted in Priorslee | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

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)

The Vision for the Finances of St Mary’s

Over the last weeks we’ve been looking in our Sermon Series at the development of the Vision for St Mary’s. We have a Big Vision: to see God’s Kingdom extended out of the centre of Luton. We have a Big Aim: to build a strong church of disciples of Jesus Christ, reaching out to others. […]

March 22, 2008 – 8:17 pm | By tim | Posted in Luton | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Christmas 2 – Epiphany

Tonight, getting towards the end of the Christmas season, we’re thinking about Epiphany. On Christmas day we celebrated what is called the Incarnation, that is when God became human. But in some senses today’s celebration is more important . That’s because it’s only through Epiphany that we know what God is up to. A baby […]

March 22, 2008 – 8:06 pm | By tim | Posted in Luton | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (0)