Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 27 April 2025. ‘Do we hesitate? Maybe it is also time for us to let the Lord meet us in our own hesitations, as we receive His commission as well.’
Archives for April 2025
Easter Day: The air that we breathe
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 20 April 2025. ‘It is life everlasting, joy in its fulness, peace beyond understanding, the portion poured out: overflowing and spilling onto the ground.’
Commentary: New experiences of love
I suspect that none of us expected the western world to change as it has following the inauguration of the new administration in the USA in January, writes Rev Sydney Maitland. As weeks went by however, more and more of our easy assumptions were challenged and some were swept away. One newspaper columnist thought that…
Lent 5: I am doing a new thing!
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 6 April 2025. ‘God would be known and worshipped in a different way, and all the human impulses to dominate and oppress others would have to be set aside in favour of the total victory over sin and death that Jesus would accomplish. A new life, aims and values.’
Commentary: Our readiness to receive
Crime, instability, uncertainty, confusion: the list goes on, writes Rev Sydney Maitland. For some, it is the system, so change the system and the rest will follow. Of course, we need to say what we mean by ‘The System’ and then how it should be reformed or replaced. But then we must ask, ‘What with?’…
