Weekly Update #262 – 10 August

St Columba’s United Reformed Church 30 Northumberland Square | North Shields | NE30 1PW Weekly Update #262 – Sunday 10th August  2025 From The Minister         A Temporary Measure Coming Towards its End The first edition of our church’s Weekly Update appeared on 22nd March 2020. We were experiencing the first “lockdown” of the COVID era, and we […]

Read More

Sermon: Rich Fools

A sermon preached by the Revd Dr Trevor Jamison at Saint Columba’s United Reformed Church, August 3rd 2025 Colossians 3:1-5; Luke 12:13-21 Watch the whole service on YouTube ‘Put to death, therefore, whatever in you is earthly: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed (which is idolatry).’ (3:5) That’s what the Apostle Paul has […]

Read More

Weekly Update #261 – 3 August

St Columba’s United Reformed Church 30 Northumberland Square | North Shields | NE30 1PW Weekly Update #261 – Sunday 3rd August  2025 From The Minister          Why Am I Doing This? How would you like to go and knock on a stranger’s door and offer them a copy of Luke’s Gospel to […]

Read More

Sermon: What’s it all About?

A sermon preached by the Reverend Dr Trevor Jamison at Saint Columba’s United Reformed Church, North Shields, July 31st 2022 Luke 12:13-21 What is life about? One day, someone asked Jesus to settle a family dispute over an inheritance (12:13) – not the first time, or the last, that families have had that sort of […]

Read More

A Harvest Sermon

Preached by the Reverend Trevor Jamison at Saint Columba’s United Reformed Church, North Shields September 19th 2021 Deuteronomy 26:1-11; Psalm 67; Luke 12:13-21 So today, in Luke’s Gospel, we have a harvest story that arises out of a family economic dispute. Family arguments over money are just the worst, aren’t they? Someone in a crowd […]

Read More