Summer, Sea and Sun

Reflection by the Reverend Trevor Jamison for an evening service at Saint Columba’s United Reformed Church, North Shileds, June 30th 2019 Matthew 4:18-22; Matthew 8:23-27 “Summertime, and the livin’ is easy Fish are jumpin’ and the cotton is high Oh, your daddy’s rich and your ma is good-lookin’ So hush, little baby, don’t you cry” […]

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Being Fruitful

A sermon preached by the Reverend Trevor Jamison at Saint Columba’s United Reformed Church, June 30th, 2019 Luke 9:51-62; Galatians 5:1, 13-25 Luke tells us that, ‘a village of Samaritans … did not receive him [Jesus], because his face was set towards Jerusalem … [and] when his disciples James and John saw it, they said, […]

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What did God ever do for us?

Sermon preached by the Reverend Trevor Jamison at Saint Columba’s United Reformed Church, June 23rd, 2019 Luke 8:26-39; Galatians 3:23-29 ‘Then all the people of the surrounding country … asked Jesus to leave them; for they were seized with great fear.’ (8:37) Well, that’s gratitude for you. In the movie, The Life of Brian, a […]

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Anything you Want to be?

Sermon for Pentecost 2019 preached by the Reverend Trevor Jamison Genesis 11:1-9; Acts 2:1-21 “You can be anything you want to be!” That’s what we sometimes say to children or young people about their future: “you can be anything you want to be.” Maybe someone has said it to you at some point in your […]

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Celebrating St Columba’s Day

St Columba’s Day in 2019 fell on a Sunday, 9 June, and as it is also 70 years since the church chose the name of St Columba’s, it seemed an appropriate occasion to mark. When the Northumberland Square and Howard Street Presbyterian Churches united in 1949, a new name was needed for the church, which […]

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