Sermon by The Reverend Trevor Jamison Saint Columba’s United Reformed Church, North Shields John 14: 15-21; Acts 17: 22-31 Based upon a sermon preached at Brentwood United Reformed Church, April 27th 2008 A poem, written in 1971 by an eleven-year-old boy, looking back at his first day at school in the mid-1960s: The first […]
Living Stones
Sermon 1 Peter 2: 2-10; John 14: 1-14 (Based upon a sermon first preached at Ingatestone United Reformed Church, Essex, May 22nd 2011) “Come to him, the living Stone – rejected by men but chosen by God and precious to him – you also [are] like living stones.” (2:4, 5) Stones – chosen and precious, […]
The Meal at Emmaus
Sermon Luke 24:13-49 ‘When he was at the table with them, he took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to them. Then their eyes were opened, and they recognised him; and he vanished from their sight.’ (24:30-31) What was it about Jesus taking bread, blessing it, breaking it, and giving it to these […]
On the Re-Birth Journey
A sermon preached by the Reverend Trevor Jamison at Saint Columba’s United Reformed Church, March 8th 2020 Genesis 12:1-4a; Romans 4:1-5, 13-17; John 3:1-17 I was going to start by asking how much you like travelling but realised that that’s the wrong question. What I really wanted to ask was how you feel about the […]
“I Could Murder You!”
A sermon preached by the Reverend Trevor Jamison at Saint Columba’s United Reformed Church, North Shields, February 16th 2020 Deuteronomy 30:15-20; Matthew 5:21-37 Murder, adultery, divorce and oath taking … Previously, on Sermons at Saint Columba’s … Two weeks ago, we had the beatitudes, the start of Jesus’s Sermon on the Mount. (5:1-12) Last week, […]