Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday June 29 2025. ‘The Lord wants us to win and not to lose – unlike some of our more sensational media. If we fail, we start again. If we fall, we get up again. If we hesitate, He will restore our confidence.’
Archives for June 2025
Renowned Egyptologist guest at 100th Tea & Talk
Archaeologist, Egyptologist, author and lecturer Dr Bill Manley spoke on the theme ‘Ancient Egyptian Sense of Self and Others’ at All Saints’ 100th Tea & Talk on Thursday June 26. Dr Manley, honorary president of Egyptology Scotland, is best known for devising popular forms of access to the study of Ancient Egypt. Bill’s books have…
Trinity 1: Our God is a listening God
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 22 June 2025. ‘This is the kind of mercy with which the Lord seeks to bless us and in which He waits to be gracious to us.’
Trinity: Why the difficulty?
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 15 June 2025. ‘This is the presence of God the Son, Jesus Christ, now made present to us in every land by the presence and movement of the Holy Spirit. He who only takes what He receives from Jesus and gives it to us.’
Pentecost: Just as Jesus was tempted, so are we
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 8 June 2025. ‘The disciples of the Lord have been granted spiritual gifts and areas of serving, by which the gospel may be proclaimed and the life of the body of believers edified and enhanced.’
Scottish Episcopal Church Synod wrestles with fallout after return of Bishop Dyer
The fallout over the return to work of the Bishop of Aberdeen & Orkney, the Rt Revd Anne Dyer, meant that this week’s meeting of the Scottish Episcopal Church’s General Synod had been “assailed by words even before we gathered”, members were told on Thursday, the Church Times reports. Later on Friday, a lay member…
Ascension 1: Jesus’ prayer and vision
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 1 June 2025. ‘Jesus was never looking at the church as an organization, with rules and structures and orders of ministry. What was needed would come to be so long as it served the needs of the gospel, rather than the personal ambitions of its members – or the state.’
