St Columba’s Church now has new signs, brightly and clearly telling all who pass that we are a church, and giving details of our services and regular activities
On the Re-Birth Journey
A sermon preached by the Reverend Trevor Jamison at Saint Columba’s United Reformed Church, March 8th 2020 Genesis 12:1-4a; Romans 4:1-5, 13-17; John 3:1-17 I was going to start by asking how much you like travelling but realised that that’s the wrong question. What I really wanted to ask was how you feel about the […]
“I Could Murder You!”
A sermon preached by the Reverend Trevor Jamison at Saint Columba’s United Reformed Church, North Shields, February 16th 2020 Deuteronomy 30:15-20; Matthew 5:21-37 Murder, adultery, divorce and oath taking … Previously, on Sermons at Saint Columba’s … Two weeks ago, we had the beatitudes, the start of Jesus’s Sermon on the Mount. (5:1-12) Last week, […]
Following the Rules?
A Sermon Preached by the Reverend Trevor Jamison at Saint Columba’s United Reformed Church, North Shields, February 9th 2020 Matthew 5: 13-20 In last week’s sermon I started with the Sermon on the Mount and with the beatitudes – its best-known bit. Jesus then went on to say, ‘Do not think that I have come […]
The Beatitudes are for…
A Sermon Preached by the Reverend Trevor Jamison at Saint Columba’s United Reformed Church, February 2nd 2020 Micah 6: 1-8; Psalm 15; Matthew 5: 1-10 There is a story told about an American college where every student was required to take an ‘introduction to religion’ course. Whatever subject was their ‘major’ in they still had […]