Weekly Update #176 – 29 October

St Columba’s United Reformed Church 30 Northumberland Square | North Shields | NE30 1PW Weekly Update #176    29th October 2023 From the Minister                           Good Neighbours  Recently, one member of a group of British MPs on an official trip to Canada was stopped and questioned before being allowed to board his flight alongside […]

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Weekly Update #175 – 22 October

St Columba’s United Reformed Church 30 Northumberland Square | North Shields | NE30 1PW Weekly Update #175    22nd October 2023 From the Minister                  Two Conversations At the Northern Synod October Meeting this year, representatives from around the Synod had conversations about two important elements in church […]

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Weekly Update #174 – 15 October

St Columba’s United Reformed Church 30 Northumberland Square | North Shields | NE30 1PW Weekly Update #174    15th October 2023 From the Minister There Are No Words … Some years ago, a URC Minister who worked as a hospital chaplain, said that when confronted with situations of suffering, she would begin the conversation by […]

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Sermon: Having Rules is Good News

A sermon preached by the Revd Dr Trevor Jamison at Saint Columba’s United Reformed Church, North Shields, October 8th 2023 Exodus 20: 1-20; Psalm 19; Matthew 21: 33-46 Watch the whole service on YouTube   How many of the ten commandments do the tenants break in Jesus’s parable? Obviously they  break the one against murder, […]

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Weekly Update #173 – 8 October

St Columba’s United Reformed Church 30 Northumberland Square | North Shields | NE30 1PW Weekly Update #173    8th October 2023 From the Minister                           Season of Mists and mellow Fruitfulness Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that […]

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