Weekly Update #50: Sunday 14 March 2021

St Columba’s United Reformed Church 30 Northumberland Square | North Shields | NE30 1PW Weekly Update #50: Sunday 14th March 2021 (Fourth Sunday of Lent) From the Minister               Fifty Updates And Still Going  My first thought was that I would illustrate this item with the first image ever to appear in our church’s Weekly Update. That turned out to […]

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Sermon: Jesus has a Spiritual Clearout

Jesus Has a Spiritual Clear Out A sermon preached by the reverend Trevor Jamison for Saint Columba’s United Reformed Church, North Shields, March 7th 2021 Exodus 20:1-17; John 2:13-22 What got Jesus so exercised by livestock sales and currency exchange? We’re told that, ‘making a whip of cords, he drove all of them out of […]

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Weekly Update #49: Sunday 7 March 2021

St Columba’s United Reformed Church 30 Northumberland Square | North Shields | NE30 1PW Weekly Update #49: Sunday 7th March 2021 (Third Sunday of Lent) From the Minister               Not So Meek and Mild All four Gospels report the occasion when Jesus ‘cleansed’ the temple by driving out people doing business on the premises. It happened towards the end […]

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Sermon: Get Behind Me!

A sermon preached by the Reverend Trevor Jamison for Saint Columba’s United Reformed Church, North Shields, February 28th 2021 Genesis 17:1-7, 15-16; Mark 8:31-38 ‘Get behind me, Satan!’ (8:33) That’s what Jesus says to Peter, when Peter tries to tell Jesus what he should be doing, rather than the other way around. This was so […]

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Weekly Update #48: Sunday 28 February 2021

St Columba’s United Reformed Church 30 Northumberland Square | North Shields | NE30 1PW Weekly Update #48: Sunday 28th February 2021 (Second Sunday of Lent) From the Minister Spring has sprung in the manse garden. Even I can get plants to grow from bulbs. I stick them in the ground, then wait for them to appear. First […]

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