Sermon: Remembrance Sunday

A Sermon on Remembrance by the Reverend Trevor Jamison, Saint Columba’s United Reformed Church, preached in November 2020 (Isaiah 25:4-9; Psalm 46; Luke 1:68-79) So, today is a time for thanksgiving. We give thanks for the lives and dedication of all those who have lived through wars, especially those who have had to fight in […]

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Sermon: What’s Next for the Saints?

What’s Next For the Saints? A sermon preached by the Reverend Trevor Jamison, Saint Columba’s United Reformed Church, North Shields, November 1st 2020 – All Saints Day Revelation 7: 9-17 What’s next? Go to lockdown, go straight to lockdown; do not enter tier 3; do not collect together at church for worship. But what follows […]

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Sermon: The Hope of a Promised Land

A Sermon Preached by the Reverend Trevor Jamison at Saint Columba’s United Reformed Church, North Shields, 25th October 2020 Deuteronomy 34:1-12; Psalm 90:1-6, 13-17; Matthew 22:34-46 In recent weeks we have had several readings from the Book of Exodus, which tells the story of God’s people, the Jews, being freed by God from slavery in […]

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Sermon: What do we Owe to Government?

Sermon preached by the Reverend Trevor Jamison at Saint Columba’s United Reformed Church, North Shields October 18th 2020 Isaiah 45:1-7; Psalm 96:1-9; Matthew 22:15-22 So,  today, I’m preaching a political sermon, It’s not my fault – the Bible made me do it! We have three Bible readings – one from Isaiah, one from the Psalms, […]

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Sermon: Invitational Leadership

A sermon, based upon one preached by the Reverend Trevor Jamison in 2011 to a United Reformed Church congregation in Essex, at a service where Elders were beginning a new period of service.  In the URC the Elders Meeting – Minister and elders elected by the congregation – collectively ‘exercise oversight of the spiritual life […]

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