Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 31 August 2025. ‘The drive to success is all very well but when it is the person least well placed in this striving for recognition who loses out then the game begins to go off.’
How gloriously He will meet us!
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland at Evensong on Saturday 30 August 2025. ‘We want a sign and it is given. Its shape is the cross and its name is Jesus.’
Trinity 10: Asking the people to get real
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 24 August 2025. ‘God is a consuming fire and will indeed burn up any false religiosity, any self-promotion, or misleading doctrines to lead people away from their lives of faith in God.’
Trinity 9: Asking for help
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 17 August 2025. ‘This is where the letter to the Hebrews presents us with heroes of the faith. It invites us to reject the things that hold us back and to look towards Him for our life and identity.’
Trinity 8: Right with God
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 10 August 2025. ‘For us also, it is still a matter of holding to the things of God before all else. These define our attitude to each other, to our lives and money and relationships.’
Trinity 7: Why we need each other so much
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 3 August 2025. ‘Setting the mind on the things of God, letting go of the things that must die, looking to a renewed identity in the knowledge and in the image of God Himself.’
Trinity 6: We have all been in times of great testing …
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday July 27 2025. ‘Having received Jesus as Lord, then we must continue in Him: rooted and grounded in Him, secure in His love and in His purposes even when the way ahead of us is unsure.’
Trinity 5: Setting priorities
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 20 July 2025. ‘Above all, it is letting His love come into our lives – and especially where we most need His truth and His healing.’
Trinity 4: ‘Fear not’
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 13 July 2025. ‘Our national values and institutions are more and more founded on sentiment and appearance, on feeling and emotion. But the death and resurrection of Jesus are facts, even though we now receive them and respond to them in faith.’
Trinity 3: He has already overcome sin and death
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 6 July 2025. ‘He is still sending us out as His messengers, and that message is there in how we are and how we speak of Him: gently but with great confidence.’
Trinity 2: The path of discipleship
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.’
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.’
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.’
Ascension Day: The purposes of God which have yet to be shown to us
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Thursday 25 May 2025. ‘The task entrusted to the apostles and all who follow them shows Jesus’ confidence in those apostles, and a mixed bunch they were…’
Easter 6: Pull down the barriers
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 25 May 2025. ‘And so day by day, event by event, meeting by meeting we are called to allow Him to draw closer to us.’
Easter 5: Jesus’ New Commandment to His disciples
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 18 May 2025. ‘He sees us in terms of wiping every tear from the eyes of His people. Death, mourning, crying and pain have no meaning or significance. The Lord is seeing to that one, personally.’
Easter 4: ‘I know My sheep and they know Me’
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 11 May 2025. ‘They know His Name and rejoice in it; they hear His word and they follow it; they honour one another who are also His sheep. They have that instinctive sense of being in His presence when they are with others who also seek His face.’
Easter 3: Called into the service of His gospel
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 4 May 2025. ‘He was there so that we also might be part of that great company of praise in heaven: animated not by our sins and memories but empowered by His mercy.’
Easter 2: The faith that comes through in small things
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.’
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.’
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.’
Lent 4, Mothering Sunday: The comforts of God
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 30 March 2025. ‘Always there, always on the look-out, always ready to draw us close with His strength and reassurance.’
Lent 3: All should repent from self-serving agendas
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 23 March 2025. ‘And yes, the holiness and purity of God is not the length of a measuring rod: it is the width of the universe. In this none may assume that there are aspects of their own lives that do not demand to be assessed and amended’
Lent 2: In it but not of it
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 16 March 2025. ‘And so they are urged to stand firm. To stand in their faith, their confidence in Jesus Christ, in the glory of the scriptures and the sacraments.’
Lent 1: The atoning sacrifice of Jesus
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 9 March 2025. ‘And so Paul stresses that if we believe in our hearts that God raised Jesus from the dead, and confess with our mouths that this is so then we shall be saved.’
Ash Wednesday: It is His agenda that matters
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Wednesday 5 March 2025. ‘For us the starting point is not our own perception or convenience. It is the total and utter purity of God, without any suggestion of compromise.’
Epiphany 8 / Quinquagesima: The salvation of all people
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 2 March 2025. ‘So there could never be any kind of substitute for that personal faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. No amount of right thinking or fashionably up-to-date demonstrating on current issues was ever going to substitute for that faith.’
Epiphany 7 / Sexagesima: Perhaps there are things that we can let go of
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 23 February 2025. ‘The more space we can make for Him, then the more space we dedicate to Him for His use and glory. The more we can offer Him then the more He can use us to bless others – and that includes those who turned us against ourselves and against God.’
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