Eco Matters: Fairtrade Fortnight

This is the eighth in a series of articles from the Eco Church Team at St Columba’s, which are also published in our church magazine. Over 100 million cups of tea are drunk in the UK every day!  That was news to me as one who their fair share of this brew. This year Fairtrade […]

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Sermon: Weeds and Wheat

A Harvest Sermon preached by the Revd Dr Trevor Jamison at Saint Columba’s United Reformed Church, North Shields, Sunday 28th September 2025 Genesis 8:15-22; Matthew 13:24-33   Jesus ‘put before them another parable: ‘The kingdom of heaven may be compared to someone who sowed good seed in his field; but while everybody was asleep, an enemy came […]

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Sermon: The Land

A Harvest Service sermon preached by the Revd Dr Trevor Jamison at Saint Columba’s United Reformed Church, Sunday 28th September 2025 Deuteronomy 8:1-10; Mark 4:1-9 Watch the whole service on YouTube ‘This entire commandment that I command you today you must diligently observe, so that you may live and increase, and go in and occupy […]

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Weekly Update #263 – 17 August

St Columba’s United Reformed Church 30 Northumberland Square | North Shields | NE30 1PW Weekly Update #263 – Sunday 17th August  2025 From the Minister                                               Learning Something New  In the Parable of the Prodigal Son […]

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Sermon: People of Faith

A sermon preached by the Revd Dr Trevor Jamison at Saint Columba’s United Reformed Church, North Shields, August 10th 2025 Genesis 15:1-6; Hebrews 11:1-3, 8-16; Luke 12:32-40 Owing to a technical fault, this service was not livestreamed   Several years ago, back in the very early 1980s, when I was a student at university in […]

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