Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 16 February 2025. ‘But the personal faith of the church was in Jesus as a resurrected being and not as a memory or a historical figure. Either Jesus is alive or He is not. There are no alternatives.’

Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 9 February 2025. ‘If we think our years are too advanced, then think of Moses, called to serve God as a youngster of 80.’

Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 3 February 2025. ‘Maybe the church is also intended to come into its own, like the football stadium, when the game is on and the stands are full and there is that excitement and exuberance in the air.’

Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 19 January 2025. ‘Where our humanity seems to fail, the Lord is able to fulfil and supply: magnificently and far beyond our imaginations.’

Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 12 January 2025. ‘Jesus’ promise is very clear that He will hear our prayers and answer them. And we need it in order to fulfil the ministries that He wishes us to pursue.’

Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 5 January 2025. ‘As we reflect on the coming of the Magi, perhaps there are things in which we can make our personal response…’

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.’’

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.’

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.’

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.’

Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 24 November 2024. ‘Now we wait for Him to return and claim what is His own and to remodel it in His own fashion.’

Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 10 November 2024. ‘We are … remembering those whose devotion to duty cost them their lives – maybe not always willingly offered. But they still went forth anyway.’

Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 3 November 2024. ‘There are many burdens that we carry in this world. The fear of sin and death need not be among them’

Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 13 October 2024. ‘In the Holy Spirit, He comes to us with His personal life and experience, His own wisdom and His ability to see and perceive. To discern and give counsel.’

Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 6 October 2024. ‘When our priorities start with the Kingdom then our other needs fall into place.’

Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 29 September 2024. ‘Perhaps our three lessons are linked by a commitment: the devotion and self-giving of Esther; the place of prayer shown by Esther and James; the importance of prayer and unity of faith as we continue to serve the Lord in our own time and place.’

Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 22 September 2024. ‘Leadership did not grow out of public relations and a good personal story. It did not come out of aggressive self-promotion and noisy assertions. It was to be seen in serving others and putting them before oneself.’

Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 1 September 2024. ‘What matters is that Jesus should increase in us and that our self-importance should decrease. That is how we will find ourselves – and that is also how the Lord wishes to be found in us.’

Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 18 August 2024. ‘May we … live by every word that comes from the mouth of God and not from our own emotions.’

Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 11 August 2024. ‘I do not believe that Jesus came in order to found a church or even the church. Emphatically not.’