A sermon preached by the Reverend Trevor Jamison for Saint Columba’s United Reformed Church, September 4th 2022 Philemon In 2020, slavery made it back into the headlines when the statue of Edward Colston, a merchant who had made a lot of money from the slave trade, was pulled down and dumped in the harbour in […]
Sermon: Why Come to Church?
A sermon preached by the Revd Dr Trevor Jamison at Saint Columba’s United Reformed Church, September 4th 2022 2 Corinthians 5:19; Matthew 7:21-29 Why bother coming to church? What’s it for? What’s it about? If, you had asked what church was about when I was a child and teenager, growing up in Belfast in the […]
Sermon: Life on Earth, Treasure in Heaven
A sermon preached by the Reverend Dr Trevor Jamison at Saint Columba’s United Reformed Church, North Shields, August 7th 2022 Genesis 15:1-6; Luke 12:32-40 This week’s question is, ‘How do you feel about the future?’ Last Sunday the morning the question was, ‘What’s life all about?’ We heard Jesus’s parable about a rich landowner whose […]
Sermon: Remembering Those Who Died During Covid
A sermon preached by the Reverend Trevor Jamison at Saint Columba’s United Reformed Church North Shields, July 31st 2022, during A Service Remembering Those Who Died During ‘Time of Covid’ Isaiah 43:1-7; Psalm 23; Revelation 22:1-5 On the 31st of December 2019, the World Health Organisation (WHO) was informed of a cluster of cases of […]
Sermon: What’s it all About?
A sermon preached by the Reverend Dr Trevor Jamison at Saint Columba’s United Reformed Church, North Shields, July 31st 2022 Luke 12:13-21 What is life about? One day, someone asked Jesus to settle a family dispute over an inheritance (12:13) – not the first time, or the last, that families have had that sort of […]