A sermon preached by the Revd Dr Trevor Jamison at Saint Columba’s United Reformed Church, North Shields, 30th April 2023 Acts 2:43-47 Watch the whole service on YouTube If God is our shepherd (as it says in Psalm 23), if Jesus is our shepherd (as it says in John’s Gospel – 10:2-5, 11), what […]
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 […]
Sermon: What Makes a Church a Church?
Sermon Isaiah 51:1-6; Psalm 138; Romans 12:1-8; Matthew 16:13-20 What makes a church a church? It’s more than a building. For months we did not worship in this building and yet we are still a church, though physical location, is significant for many. The psalm with which we began our service today says, ‘I give […]
Back to Church
Saint Columba’s United Reformed Church, North Shields Worshipping Joyfully and Worshipping Safely We are happy to say that morning worship in the church building resumes on Sunday 16 August 2020 There will be two thirty-minute services, one at 10.00 a.m. and one at 11.15 a.m., each with a maximum of thirty participants. You must […]
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, […]