Sermon: Past, Present and Future

A sermon preached by the Revd Dr Trevor Jamison at  Saint Columba’s United Reformed Church, North Shields, 3rd April 2022 Isaiah 43:16-21; Philippians 3:4b-14 It won’t have escaped your notice that there’s some building work going on the middle of North Shields. Northumberland Square has new paving, and the garden is being returned to a […]

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Sermon: A Ministry of Reconciliation

A sermon preached by the Revd Dr Trevor Jamison at Saint Columba’s United Reformed Church, North Shields, March 27th 2022 2 Corinthians 5:16-21   At this morning’s service we listened to the Parable of the Prodigal Son, or alternatively, the Parable of the Welcoming Father. We reflected that the father in the parable behaves in […]

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Sermon: Mothers and Fathers

A sermon preached by the Revd Dr Trevor Jamison at Saint Columba’s United Reformed Church, North Shields, 27th March 2022 Luke 15:11-32   It’s the fourth Sunday in Lent, so it’s Mothering Sunday. In this church, Sunday by Sunday, we normally take our readings from the Revised Common Lectionary. That’s a collection of Bible readings […]

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Sermon: The Temptations that Face us All

A sermon preached  by the Reverend Dr Trevor Jamison at Saint Columba’s United Reformed Church, North Shields Luke 4:1-13; Romans 10:8b-13 ‘Then the devil led him up and showed him in an instant all the kingdoms of the world,’ … [saying] ‘it has been given over to me, and I will give it to anyone […]

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Sermon: Resurrection and our Future

The third in a series of three sermons preached by the Reverend Trevor Jamison at Saint Columba’s United Reformed Church, North Shields Luke 9:28-36; 1 Corinthians 15:35-38, 42-49 Welcome to today’s sermon, which, depending upon your point of view, is either the third sermon in a series on the resurrection, based on the fifteenth chapter […]

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