Weekly Update #60 – 23 May 2021

St Columba’s United Reformed Church 30 Northumberland Square | North Shields | NE30 1PW Weekly Update #60 – 23rd May 2021 From the Minister                                Pentecost Fire Pentecost Fire: Image by Holger Schué on Pixabay ‘And a tongue of fire rested on each one of them. […]

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Weekly Update #11: Sunday 31 May

St Columba’s United Reformed Church 30 Northumberland Square | North Shields | NE30 1PW Weekly Update #11: Sunday 31st May 2020 – Pentecost Sunday From the Minister – Going Wild Several months ago we stopped mowing a large circle of grass/moss in our front garden and sowed it with wildflower seeds. Initially the lawn looked as though […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Anything you Want to be?

Sermon for Pentecost 2019 preached by the Reverend Trevor Jamison Genesis 11:1-9; Acts 2:1-21 “You can be anything you want to be!” That’s what we sometimes say to children or young people about their future: “you can be anything you want to be.” Maybe someone has said it to you at some point in your […]

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