A sermon by the Reverend Trevor Jamison, based on one preached to a United Reformed Church congregation in Essex in 2008. John 17: 1-11 The world needs praying for. Every day our attention is caught by aspects of this world’s life that cry out for prayer. We see injustice and greed at work; hunger […]
Weekly Update #9: Sunday 17 May
St Columba’s United Reformed Church 30 Northumberland Square | North Shields | NE30 1PW Weekly Update #9: Sunday 17th May 2020 (Sixth Sunday of Easter) From the Minister – Ready for the New “Normal” The latest Westminster government document talks about places of worship possibly beginning to re-open in July. As the URC advice Ready for the new “normal” points out, […]
I Will Not Leave You Bereft
Sermon by The Reverend Trevor Jamison Saint Columba’s United Reformed Church, North Shields John 14: 15-21; Acts 17: 22-31 Based upon a sermon preached at Brentwood United Reformed Church, April 27th 2008 A poem, written in 1971 by an eleven-year-old boy, looking back at his first day at school in the mid-1960s: The first […]
Weekly Update #8: Sunday 10 May
St Columba’s United Reformed Church 30 Northumberland Square | North Shields | NE30 1PW Weekly Update #8: Sunday 10th May 2020 (Fifth Sunday of Easter) Window was designed and made by Leonard Evetts MA, ARCA (1909-1997) of King’s College, Newcastle upon Tyne. This copy was taken from ‘A Walk Around St Columba’s United Reformed Church’ compiled by John Robson, […]
Living Stones
Sermon 1 Peter 2: 2-10; John 14: 1-14 (Based upon a sermon first preached at Ingatestone United Reformed Church, Essex, May 22nd 2011) “Come to him, the living Stone – rejected by men but chosen by God and precious to him – you also [are] like living stones.” (2:4, 5) Stones – chosen and precious, […]