Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 8 January 2023. ‘But when we put together the law and the prophets with the gold, and the frankincense and the myrrh then they give each other life and meaning.’
Christmas 1: Death will never have the last word
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 1 January 2023. ‘This was the loving kindness of God in action. God taking personal responsibility for the whole of the human condition when none other could do so.’
Christmas Day: Only the beginning
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 25 December 2022. ‘A new song for a new time. Glory to God – to be worshipped and adored like none other in human history.’
Advent 4: The source of who we are and where we are going
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 18 December 2022. ‘Today faith seems to be a form of cultural bonding. It has its practices and conventions, its festivals and fasts. But the Christian hope is about trusting God above all others and in Jesus following His teaching and example.’
Advent 3: A new and greater dimension
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 11 December 2022. ‘As we gather in worship we are doing far more than having a social bonding session. We are also being taken up with the things of God.’
Advent 2: Encrusted with its own importance
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 4 December 2022. ‘It is still our task to keep that electricity of the gospel in being and to ask for the renewing work of the Holy Spirit among us.’
Advent Sunday: The task is not to lose heart
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 27 November 2022. ‘The world still aches to see God and in the church it should be able to see Jesus. We have to make sure that it does.’
Christ the King: This is the kind of King that we serve…
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 20 November 2022. ‘Jesus’ kingship is present among His disciples in every age and situation as they spread the word of His life and death and resurrection.’
Remembrance: Apocalypse now?
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 13 November 2022. ‘This is the time to renew our lives of prayer, and to look again at the things of our faith. It is time to pray for those who already serve in our forces and civilian first responders, and for those who will serve or be called to other service for the nation. That may include some of you here today.’
All Saints: Chosen and blessed in the sight of God
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 6 November 2022. ‘The most emphatic of Jesus’ blessings is for those who endure insult and exclusion from the scoffers and deniers of the land. But Paul has more to say in support of those who determine to believe and trust in Jesus…’
4th before Advent: It all seems so unfair
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 30 October 2022.
Trinity 19: Whatever disappointments life has thrown at us, God has seen
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 23 October 2022. ‘The mercy and rewards of God are unearned because they are unearnable. They can only be received in love and joy, which is given in exuberant and extravagant mercy.’
Trinity 18: A different kind of reality
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 16 October 2022.
Trinity 17: Jesus met them and they were healed
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 9 October 2022. ‘The question for us is why do some suffer and others not? Why do some find their pleas answered and others meet delay or just silence?’
Trinity 16 – Harvest: There is still much to be grateful for
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 2 October 2022. ‘To receive Jesus’ agenda in faith is to open doors to a wholly new kind of life. He promises not only a new relationship with God but a new relationship with ourselves and with each other.’
Trinity 13: A day of very mixed feelings
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 11 September 2022. ‘What God says to us He also says to our King: Fear not, for I have redeemed you. I have called you by name; you are Mine.’
Trinity 12: Discipleship is a process and not just a state of being
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 4 September 2022. ‘Discipleship is a long and personal encounter with the love and mercy of God as He directs and prunes our lives so that we may become more of what we already are in His sight.’
Trinity 11: Seeing and being seen
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 28 August 2022. ‘One of the challenges of the times will be as we discover how much we belong to one another and what we can do to support one another.’
Trinity 10: Never a burden, always a means of drawing close to God
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 21 August 2022.
Trinity 9: A point of division
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 14 August 2022. ‘And so yes, Jesus is a line in the sand. Are we with Him or against Him? Indifferent and indulgent tolerance is not enough.’
Trinity 8: Watch the signs of the times
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 7 August 2022. ‘It is when people are most indolent in their faith and most inclined to use the church as a vehicle for their political and cultural agendas that is most likely to be caught out and found to be at fault.’
Trinity 7: There is even more to come
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 31 July 2022. ‘To be invested solely in the fleeting glamour of our times is to risk losing all of it – certainly at the end of life and possibly as the result of calamity in our own times.’
Trinity 6: Never give up
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 24 July 2022. ‘God is never deaf or blind. And it is not as if we are telling Him anything He does not already know: rather, we are placing ourselves in His hands so that He may meet us and feed us and fulfil us.’
Trinity 5: Ever-decreasing circles
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 17 July 2022. ‘The task of the church is to remain centred on Jesus and His teaching. It is still to focus on the salvation that He has wrought and which none other has or can.’
Trinity 4: A message for our time
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 10 July 2022. ‘If we love God with all that we have and are, with heart and soul, strength and mind, then we can’t possibly fail.’
Trinity 3: The long haul
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 3 July 2022. ‘Paul warns the church that it can live for itself or for the name and purposes of Jesus. Its members can live for themselves and all their physical and emotional appetites, or they can be moved and empowered by the Spirit of the Lord.’
Trinity 2: The costs of discipleship
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 26 June 2022. ‘We do not have to be heroic figures like Elijah. Most of us are called to be Elisha figures – but this is no trivial thing and in the sight of God we also can be mighty in the land.’
Trinity 1: This sense of turbulence makes today’s lessons look very up to date
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 19 June 2022. ‘Whatever the battering we have had to face personally and as a church, the Lord still has a new plan and a new purpose for us.’
Trinity Sunday: And so we enter the mystery…
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 12 June 2022. ‘The whole of God is the total love and commitment of Father, Son and Holy Spirit to one another.’
Pentecost: Is there more that we can ask for and expect to receive?
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 5 June 2022. ‘The Holy Spirit is not a special gift for the specially holy: He is there for all who ask and who do so from within their own sense of need and even inadequacy.’
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