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 […]
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, […]
Weekly Update #41: Sunday 10 January
St Columba’s United Reformed Church 30 Northumberland Square | North Shields | NE30 1PW Weekly Update #41: Sunday 10th January 2021 From the Minister Hopefully a Happy New Year Is it too late to wish you a “Happy New Year”, and if it isn’t, should I do so, given […]
Sermon: Singing from the Same Hymn Sheet
A Sermon Preached by the Reverend Trevor Jamison for Saint Columba’s United Reformed Church, North Shields, 3rd January 2020 Luke 2:21-40 I would like to invite you to join a choir, though you don’t have to be able to sing in order to take part. Each year, at Christmas, we celebrate the birth of Jesus. […]
Sermon: Gift Giving
A Sermon Preached by the Reverend Trevor Jamison for Saint Columba’s United Reformed Church, North Shields, 3rd January 2021 Isaiah 60:1-6; Matthew 2:1-12 ‘Then opening their treasure chests, they offered him gifts …’ (2:11) Well, gift-giving was a bit different in our household this Christmas. Instead of a rush around the shops everything was purchased […]