Weekly Update #44: Sunday 31 January 2021

St Columba’s United Reformed Church 30 Northumberland Square | North Shields | NE30 1PW Weekly Update #44: Sunday 31st January 2021 From the Minister                           Have you had yours? I haven’t had mine yet – my vaccine jab against Covid, that is, but I know more and more who have. There are lots of people ahead […]

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Sermon: Just in Time

A sermon preached by the Reverend Trevor Jamison for Saint Columba’s United Reformed Church, North Shields, January 24th 2021 Mark 1:14-20; 1 Corinthians 7:29-31 “Behave as if you have the virus, so stay at home as much as possible”, is the advice from our government. That sounds right to me, so I’m puzzled why they […]

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Weekly Update #43: Sunday 24 January

St Columba’s United Reformed Church 30 Northumberland Square | North Shields | NE30 1PW Weekly Update #43: Sunday 24th January 2021 Hello from John I am standing in this week while Trevor is away on Study Leave, he returns in time to do Sunday’s service which is interesting; last week he prepared ‘The Weekly Update’ […]

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Weekly Update #42: Sunday 17 January

St Columba’s United Reformed Church 30 Northumberland Square | North Shields | NE30 1PW Weekly Update #42: Sunday 17th January 2021 From the Minister                Tenacious Trees Recently, a church member emailed me a set of images of “tenacious trees” – trees that insist upon surviving and growing in challenging […]

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Sermon: Baptism of Jesus

Sermon – January 10th 2021 Previous version preached at Dunbarney and Forgandenny, January 7th 2018 Genesis 1:1-5; Mark 1:1-11 Today, we begin with the beginning of the book which begins the Bible – Genesis. The first verse of that wonderful, imaginative account of how all things began when God created creation, begins, ‘In the beginning, […]

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