Dan Millest , lead pastor at St Peters Brighton interviews Tim and Becca McGowan about their imminent move to a ministry role at St Peters, Tzaneen in South Africa.

7 July 2024  Interview at St Peter, Brighton

Tim takes Peter's speech in Acts 2: 36-40 as a barometer of change. Jesus knew suffering. Jesus wept at his friend Lazarus’ tomb. He was rejected by his own people – the crowd who had welcomed him into Jerusalem had turned on him – crucify him! His disciples had fled. He physically suffered at the hands of his Roman executioners - tortured and killed in the most cruel and agonizing way. But, could what looked like an end in fact be a new beginning? 

23 April 25  Tim McGowan 'He is alive!' Wednesday 9:00am

This week Tim was at the HTB/Alpha leadership conference in London, UK. He heard encouraging story after story of young people coming to faith in dramatic ways – they call it the quiet revival. One huge man, a former violent drug dealer with hoops implanted in his ear lobes and a bolt through his nose spoke about how he encountered Jesus - his life changed immediately.  
But for most of us, our transformation in Christ is more of a slow burn. And that’s what Tim talks about today. 


11 May 2025  Tim McGowan  'Resurrection power today'  St Peter's 9:30am

Rev Jonathan Meintjes speaks from Revelation 21: 1-6. When life is hard, look to Jesus who makes sense of everything. We will encounter trouble in this life, but as followers of Christ our hope is not in this world, but in the next. We choose to love one another because of Christ's great love for us, demonstrated on the cross, and realised by His resurrection from the grave back to life. Allelujah!

18 May 25  Jonathan Meintjes  'God's plan is for everyone' St Peter's 9:30am

A lack of love is the antithesis of a faith in Jesus.  A lack of love demands, it cajoles and manipulates, it bullies, it undermines, it curses – it gossips and slanders... 
Rather, love seeks resolution, it opens things up, it encourages, it befriends, it speaks well of others, it blesses the other. Love leaves space for God to act. 
Tim McGowan unpacks John 14: 23-29 and Jesus' teaching about the link between obedience and love. 

25 May 25  Tim McGowan  'Love, obedience and peace' St David's 7:30am

The Archdeacon, Revd Dr Caroline Chaba-Mamabolo speaks from Titus 1: 5-9 on the character of leaders at the service for the commissioning of the new Letaba Parish council.

1 June 25 Rev Dr Caroline Chaba-Mamabolo 'Godly leadership'  St Peter's  9:30am

The disciples saw, they heard, they experienced something other-worldy that first Pentecost.  It was spectacular. This event in history marks the birthday of the church, which we celebrate today. But many of us may ask the same question as those first witnesses: what does it all mean? 

8 June 25 Tim McGowan 'The promise of the Spirit'  St David's 7:30am

8 June 25 Tim McGowan  'The promise of the Spirit'  9am  St Peters

Tim speaks from John 16: 12-15, we have no hope, but for Jesus. The events at Pentecost were not just for there and then, they are equally for here and now. Translation by Maruti Leah.

15 June 25 Tim McGowan 'Jesus transforms churches' St Matthews  8am

Tim speaks from Galatians 1: 1-10, 6: 11-18 the first talk in a series on Galatians. 
Through the crucifixion, world history and the power of the present evil age (Rome political, Religious Jewish) had been dealt its death blow. Suddenly, a new age had been born and a new creation begun.  So whatever belonged to the past must be left in the past.
Paul is screaming at the Galatians ‘don't look back! Don't go back! Celebrate the new creation’. How can there be another gospel? 


22 June 25  Tim McGowan 'Don't look back'  St David's  7:30am

Tim speaks from Galatians 1: 1-10, 6: 11-18, the first talk in a series on Paul's letter to the church in Galatia. 
Through the crucifixion, world history and the power of the present evil age (Rome political, Religious Jewish) had been dealt its death blow. Suddenly, a new age had been born and a new creation begun.  So whatever belonged to the past must be left in the past.
Paul is screaming at the Galatians, and at us, ‘don't look back! Don't go back! Celebrate the new creation’. How can there be another gospel? 

22 June 25 Tim McGowan  'Don't look back'  St Peter's  9:30am

In the third sermon of the series, in Galatians 2: 1-21 we are introduced to some of the key characters in the story of early church. The main issue or question for the 1st Century church was: should new gentile believers have to conform to old Jewish practice? 

29 June 25 Tim McGowan 'Unity in Christ' St Peter's 9:30am

Tim continues with his series on Galatians focussing on Galatians 3: 1-9. He reads from a contemporary version of the bible, the Kingdom New Testament. 
Paul is saying to the Galatians “don’t go back the way you came” “stay satisfied in what you have believed”, “don’t listen to anyone who is trying to add to the gospel”. 
What would Paul say to us? What could you be trying to add to gospel truth?

6 July 25 Tim McGowan 'Grace alone' St Peters 9:30am

The fourth sermon in this series from Galatians, Tim looks at Galatians 3:19-29 and the themes of freedom and church unity church.  We are all one family in the Messiah and Paul tells us the sign of this unity is the Holy Spirit. “We are called to voluntarily choose to band together with a strange menagerie of people because of a common bond we have in Jesus Christ", says Philip Yancey. If church was instead about bizarre laws and legalism, would we not be forced to compete with one another and somehow try and earn our own salvation? 

13 July 25  Tim McGowan  'One family in Christ' St Peter's 9:30am

Tim continues the series this week looking at Galatians 4: 1-11. If we are still struggling with addiction or with behavioural issues – or whatever it is – there is healing and restoration available today. The message from this pivotal chapter in Galatians is that Christ Jesus brings hope - he enables freedom from our former selves so we are no longer held captive to sin. Instead, we are redeemed, forgiven and a work of restoration. Do you believe that Jesus has the power to set you free from whatever is obscuring your view of God? 

3 August 25  Tim McGowan  'No longer slaves'   St Peters  9:30am

Tim speaks from Galatians 4: 12-5:1, his sixth talk in the series on Galatians. 
Paul’s opponents had spotted the same problem as Paul. Like Paul, they were worrying that there were two families instead of one. Their mission was to get the gentile converts to bow to the Jewish law through circumcision. Paul, on the other hand, says the Jews should free themselves from the law and join the Gentile converts. 
Although Paul is writing to the Galatians, he also sends an implicit message to the Jews through this letter: 
‘Jewish law is something I have left behind for the gospel’ – become like me!’  
What have you left behind, or what do you still need to leave behind for the sake of living a life of freedom in Jesus Christ? 


10 Aug 25 Tim McGowan 'Slave or free?'  St Peter's 9:30am

Stacey Smith speaks about how the Transfiguration of Jesus (Matt 17:1-9) is a supernatural event, which communicates the supernatural approval of God upon His supernatural Son. This calls for a supernatural response.

26 Feb 17 Stacey Smith 'Supernatural' 9am

The crowds that followed Jesus and his ministry through Galilee and finally up to Jerusalem tended to do one of three things: 
•	Some flatly ignored him
•	There were those who loved him, stuck by him, but ran away when things got tough
•	There were those who embraced Jesus, but became easily distracted by other things and melted away
Jesus demands that we make a decision about him. 
Who is Jesus to you?

8 November 20  Tim McGowan 'Be prepared' Live@8

Tim speaks from Matthew 25: 14-30, the parable about the three servants and the bags of gold.  Life is not supposed to be a competition that you have to win. It is not supposed to be a rat race. Life is a huge privilege and opportunity. God has trusted each one of us with gifts and abilities – and he wants us to use them wisely. @revd.timmcgowan

15 November 20 Tim McGowan  'Be purposeful'  Live@8

Sermons and talks given in church by Rev Tim McGowan currently Rector of Letaba based at St Peter, Tzaneen, South Africa. Tim is an Anglican vicar originally from England. He ministered and led All Souls, Umhlali (2015-2016), St Margarets, Durban (2016-2021), and assisted at St Peter, Brighton, UK (2021-2024). @revd.timmcgowan

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