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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Pentecost Celebration
St Columba’s was the scene of a stunning Pentecost celebration. The Christian festival takes place 50 days after Easter, and commemorates the story of the coming of the Holy Spirit on the first disciples, and the beginning of the growth of the Church. In the Bible, Acts chapter 2 tells how the disciples were gathered […]