Weekly Update #239 – 2 March

St Columba’s United Reformed Church 30 Northumberland Square | North Shields | NE30 1PW Weekly Update #239 – 2nd March 2025 From the Minister                           The End of Lent?   Back in the 1980s I watched a very able URC minister come unstuck when giving a talk to a group of teenagers who were members of a […]

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Weekly Update #238 – 23 February

St Columba’s United Reformed Church 30 Northumberland Square | North Shields | NE30 1PW Weekly Update #238 – 23rd February 2025 From the Minister          What’s Love Got To Do With It? A couple of weeks ago I asked our organist, Paul to play a specific piece of music after the service. I […]

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Weekly Update #237 – 16 February

St Columba’s United Reformed Church 30 Northumberland Square | North Shields | NE30 1PW Weekly Update #237 – 16th February 2025 From the Minister               Six Thousand Two Hundred and Forty-Nine Last Sunday we had a meeting after the morning service. Fuelled by tea, coffee and cake, more than thirty of us had a conversation about “our Galilee.” […]

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Sermon: Why’s Love Greater than Faith or Hope?

A sermon preached by the Revd Dr Trevor Jamison at  Saint Columba’s United Reformed Church, 9 February 2025 1 Corinthians 13:1-13 Watch the whole service on YouTube   ‘And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love.’ (13) Why love? What’s the matter with faith or hope that […]

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Sermon: Talking Feet and Talking Ears

A sermon preached by the Revd Dr Trevor Jamison at Saint Columba’s United Reformed Church, North Shields, 2 February 2025 Luke 4:14-21; 1 Corinthians 12:12-31a Watch the whole service on YouTube   So here we are at the beginning of the second sermon in a five-part series responding to some of what the Apostle Paul wrote […]

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