Archives for 2023

Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 31 December 2023. ‘To know His Name in the worship and liturgies of the church is not enough. We also need to know Him for ourselves, and to let Him be named within us just as we also may be named within Him.’

Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 25 December 2023. ‘What started life as a helpless baby became risen, glorious, triumphant over the very powers of sin and death. We also need to move on from our own mangers…’

Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 24 December 2023. ‘May God be glorified in every generation of the church, and therefore may the Body of Christ also be wholly committed above all else to the same gospel message and truths.’

Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 3 December 2023. ‘So also are the people of the Lord as an orchestra: living in and with a tension – but one in which Jesus Himself is the One who composes, conducts and leads.’

Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 26 November 2023. ‘The theme of the intimacy of Jesus with His obedient disciples runs through the New Testament like a vein of gold in rock.’

Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 19 November 2023. ‘We may not feel that we have much to offer – but as we offer ourselves then we will find that the self that we do offer has already been blessed and enriched.’

Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 12 November 2023. ‘As we come together this Remembrance Sunday, we are both remembering those who died in the great wars of the 20th century and in lesser wars since then and ongoing today. But we are also taking care of what we remember and how we remember it …’

Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 5 November 2023. ‘We are given some very practical and personal applications of what it means to serve the Lord … It goes to the heart of our motivations and how we confront them.’

Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 15 October 2023. ‘These were Christians of simple and practical faith. They might have been looked down upon by the well-placed but in the sight of Paul they were God’s wonderful people. Just stay like that…’

Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 1 October 2023. ‘It is one thing to give thanks to the Lord for the harvest. It is another to serve Him consistently as we work for it during the rest of the year … The Lord says: I will be your God and you will be my people. Are we in?’

Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 26 September 2023.

Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 17 September 2023. ‘All of us are sinners and in need of the forgiveness of God and yet we can put ourselves beyond it by nursing grudges.’

Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 9 September 2023. ‘Life rather than management, faithfulness rather than performance targets. But it is also an orientation towards the things of God and away from self, with its demands and appetites.’

Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 27 August 2023. ‘Paul says that we are to offer ourselves as a living sacrifice to God. It also applies to our minds, our thinking and our speaking. It applies to our willingness to speak out. It is the mainspring of all our work in the church.’

Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 20 August 2023. ‘There are people in our own time who may be only dimly aware of the things of our faith and life – but who appeal to us for our aid. As we are able we also can surely hear and have mercy, and begin to tell a story.’

Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 13 August 2023. ‘For all our learning and standing, we also need to put ourselves under His protection. To find in Him our peace and security, our sense of being and of direction. Above all, to rely on Him when we may be so undermined by doubt and insecurity.’