Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 28 December 2024. ‘All of this is simple and undramatic. Not the dramatic stuff of soap operas. But it is all part of the way we grow up and grow together: growing in stature, and wisdom; growing and strengthening in our relationships with one another and with God.’
Archives for December 2024
Christmas Day: O Come, Let us adore Him!
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 25 December 2024. ‘For Jesus is indeed the radiance of the Glory of God and the exact representation of His being, and with John we in the later years of the church, still say ‘We have seen His glory.’’
Advent 4: ‘Tell out, my soul …’
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 22 December 2024. ‘The celebration of Mary and the promise of Micah are not vested in a new system of social or economic order. They are both looking to One anointed by God – a Messiah. One who is directly and personally of God and in God and yet who is also wholly human.’
Advent 3: Let Jesus be real in our generation
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 15 December 2024. ‘This is never a matter of treating the church as a museum: very interesting but of no relevance in the home or the street. More, it is the workshop of the soul, the place where hearts and spirits are raised up before God in joyful expectation.’
Advent 2: The last of the Old Testament prophets
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 8 December 2024. ‘John knew for a certainty that there was One other. He did not know who this was, but he would know Him when he saw Him.’
Advent 1: The Lord has placed us here because He believes in us
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 1 December 2024. ‘He has given us the message of His love for God and for one another, and for our neighbours. And now is the time to stand up, for our salvation is very close.’
Commentary: Trust in Him
The last several months have seen an increasing tempo in the challenges to our ways of life and thinking, writes Rev Sydney Maitland. The rulers of more and more countries around the world seem to prefer the allure of the dictatorships and are opposed to those where the rule of law prevails, and there is…
