EVENING REFLECTION FOR ST COLUMBA’S NORTH SHIELDS Provided by Dr Ann Sinclair OPENING SENTENCES Lord, come among us this evening, In the quiet let us be aware of your presence Let us be aware of your breath Let us be aware of your arms holding us in love. AMEN Prayer of Confession God […]
Sermon: Jonah Chapter 3
A sermon preached by the Reverend Trevor Jamison at an evening service at Brentwood United Reformed Church in Essex in 2011. Then, as now, the Brentwood congregation was part of a three-congregation pastorate with the URC in Ingatestone and Billericay. The sermon begins refers to a hymn by the URC Minister, John Campbell, retelling Jonah’s […]
Sermon for Pentecost
Acts 2: 1-21; John 15: 26-27; 16: 4b – 15 A sermon preached by the Reverend Trevor Jamison at Penicuik North, Church of Scotland, Pentecost 2014. The occasion included presenting an Eco-Congregation award to the church. There was also the appearance of the Eco Congregation wooden baton, which passed from congregation to congregation, to encourage […]
That They May be One
A sermon by the Reverend Trevor Jamison, based on one preached to a United Reformed Church congregation in Essex in 2008. John 17: 1-11 The world needs praying for. Every day our attention is caught by aspects of this world’s life that cry out for prayer. We see injustice and greed at work; hunger […]
I Will Not Leave You Bereft
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 […]