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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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