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.’
Archives for December 2022
Sunday worship for 25 December 2022, Christmas Day
‘God our Father, whose Word has come among us in the Holy Child of Bethlehem, may the light of faith illumine our hearts and shine in our words and deeds.’ We open our Liturgy of the Word with hymn 42, While shepherds watched …
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.’
Sunday worship for 18 December 2022, Advent 4
We open our Liturgy of the Word with hymn 11, O Come, O come Emmanuel …
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.’
News from the Diocesan Office: December 2022
The latest edition of an information bulletin from the Diocese of Glasgow & Galloway
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.’
Sunday worship for 11 December 2022, Advent 3
‘God of power and mercy, you call us once again to celebrate the coming of your Son. Remove those things which hinder love of you, that when he comes he may find us waiting in awe and wonder for him who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.’ Our accompanying music videos this week take us from Accra to Omsk, but we open this Liturgy of the Word with hymn 7, Hills of the north, rejoice …
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.’
Sunday worship for 4 December 2022, Advent 2
We open this Liturgy of the Word with hymn 12, On Jordan’s banks …
