Sermon for the United Reformed Church Golden Jubilee Preached by the Reverend Dr Trevor Jamison at Saint Columba’s United Reformed Church, October 2nd 2022 Leviticus 25:1-4, 8-10; Psalm 24; John 8:31-36 So it’s almost fifty years since October 5th 1972 when the United Reformed Church came into being, a union of the Presbyterian Church of […]
Sermon: When Gods Come to Town
A Harvest Service Sermon Preached by the Reverend Doctor Trevor Jamison at Saint Columba’s United Reformed Church, North Shields September 25th 2022 Act 14:8-14 BEFORE THE BIBLE READING What would you do if the gods came to town one day? Well, a couple of thousand years ago, in a town called Lystra, located in what […]
Sermon: Harvest Questions
A Sermon for a Harvest Service Preached by the Reverend Dr Trevor Jamison at Saint Columba’s United Reformed Church, North Shields, September 25th 2022 Deuteronomy 26:1-3, 8-11 I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who. These days […]
Sermon: The Death of the Queen and the Accession of the King
Sermon on the Occasion of the Death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Accession of His Majesty King Charles III Preached by the Reverend Dr Trevor Jamison at Saint Columba’s United Reformed Church, North Shields, September 11th 2022 John 11:20-27 We live in a moment of change. During the last one hundred and […]
Sermon: What Should I do with my Returned Slave?
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 […]