Sermon: Big Question 4

Why is the Church irrelevant as far as so many people are concerned, and what should we do about it? A sermon preached by the Revd Dr Trevor Jamison at Saint Columba’s United Reformed Church, North Shields, August 11th 2024 Genesis 28:10-17; Psalm 122; Colossians 1:15-20 Watch the service on YouTube   Then Jacob woke […]

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Sermon: The Basics of Being a Church

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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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