Sermon: What Should I do with my Returned Slave?

A sermon preached by the Reverend Trevor Jamison for Saint Columba’s United Reformed Church, September 4th 2022 Philemon In 2020, slavery made it back into the headlines when the statue of Edward Colston, a merchant who had made a lot of money from the slave trade, was pulled down and dumped in the harbour in […]

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Sermon: Why Come to Church?

A sermon preached by the Revd Dr Trevor Jamison at Saint Columba’s United Reformed Church, September 4th 2022 2 Corinthians 5:19; Matthew 7:21-29 Why bother coming to church? What’s it for? What’s it about? If, you had asked what church was about when I was a child and teenager, growing up in Belfast in the […]

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Weekly Update #121 – 4 September

St Columba’s United Reformed Church 30 Northumberland Square | North Shields | NE30 1PW Weekly Update #121 4th September 2022 Hello everyone, from John It does not seem 2 minutes since I wrote the Update in July! Where has August gone, but just as yesterday has always been, here we are at the start of […]

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Sermon: Life on Earth, Treasure in Heaven

A sermon preached by the Reverend Dr Trevor Jamison at Saint Columba’s United Reformed Church, North Shields, August 7th 2022 Genesis 15:1-6; Luke 12:32-40 This week’s question is, ‘How do you feel about the future?’ Last Sunday the morning the question was, ‘What’s life all about?’ We heard Jesus’s parable about a rich landowner whose […]

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