Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 28 May 2023. ‘The comfort that Jesus was giving the church was not a manual on marketing strategy or a code for appropriate and inclusive behaviour. Basic courtesy to all they met should have been enough to manage all contacts and relationships. No, Jesus was giving the disciples His personal and intimate presence – and nothing less.’

Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 21 May 2023. ‘Of one thing we may be sure: He who has called us and commissioned us will also equip and supply us in the fulness of His Holy Spirit. All we need do is say with Isaiah: Here am I. Send me. And He will do the rest.’

Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 14 May 2023. ‘Love God above all things, believe in Jesus and love one another. Love their neighbours as they love themselves, and yet love not the world. Let Jesus define the realities around them and He indeed would be their security in the Spirit.’

Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 30 April 2023. ‘It is a freedom from fear, especially of eternity and of death. It is a release from condemnation, and that includes the most intimate personal embarrassments as well as the received wisdoms of the culture of the day.’

Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 23 April 2023. ‘Yes, it was for real. Yes, He was alive. Yes, death was defeated.’

Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 16 April 2023. ‘Just as God the Father invested everything in Jesus to redeem the world, so also Jesus has invested everything in His disciples in every age and culture.’

Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 8 April 2023. ‘When the world is at its most destructive in arranging its affairs, the Kingdom of God is at its most creative in giving, rejoicing and centring itself of Jesus Christ – crucified and risen for evermore.’

Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 26 March 2023. ‘For Jesus is also challenging us in these days of ours: ‘Dare we believe and trust?”

Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 19 March 2023.

Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 12 March 2023. ‘But Jesus’ living water is there for all of us, and we do not have to earn it. We only have to ask.’

Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 5 March 2023. ‘Instead of each person in the world facing a just judgment for their sins, they would only have to look at and to trust in Jesus. God was never going to desire a regime of condemnation when He could fashion in Jesus a regime of forgiveness and renewal.’

Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 26 February 2023. ‘What Adam had freely forfeited, Jesus freely restored by going to the cross. What had fallen into weakness was raised in unbelievable power. What had fallen apart in the name of self-fulfilment and self-realization was restored to glory by a single act of total self-giving and self-abasement.’

Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 19 February 2023. ‘The Transfiguration of Jesus looks back at the law and the prophets and forward to the death and resurrection of Jesus. Above it all and overshadowing it is that cloud of unspeakable holiness and unapproachable glory from which comes the voice of God, and speaking of Jesus: Listen to Him.’

Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 5 February 2023. ‘It is His simple humanity that encourages us to approach in faith and confidence, knowing that whatever we face, He also has seen in its essence.’

Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 29 January 2023. ‘Those in power would never understand, in any generation. They still don’t.’

Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 22 January 2023. ‘Far from imposing a rule, God seeks to release His people within a commonwealth of His love and deliverance. It is a regime of enhancing His people to become what He had always wanted them to be. To fulfil the potential that was always there, waiting to flourish into their fullest expression.’

Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 15 January 2023. ‘The disciples who followed Him were not going to form a community spirituality circle in which members could pick and choose that which was to their taste and avoid the uncongenial.’

Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 8 January 2023. ‘But when we put together the law and the prophets with the gold, and the frankincense and the myrrh then they give each other life and meaning.’

Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 1 January 2023. ‘This was the loving kindness of God in action. God taking personal responsibility for the whole of the human condition when none other could do so.’

Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 25 December 2022. ‘A new song for a new time. Glory to God – to be worshipped and adored like none other in human history.’

Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 18 December 2022. ‘Today faith seems to be a form of cultural bonding. It has its practices and conventions, its festivals and fasts. But the Christian hope is about trusting God above all others and in Jesus following His teaching and example.’

Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 11 December 2022. ‘As we gather in worship we are doing far more than having a social bonding session. We are also being taken up with the things of God.’

Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 20 November 2022. ‘Jesus’ kingship is present among His disciples in every age and situation as they spread the word of His life and death and resurrection.’

Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 13 November 2022. ‘This is the time to renew our lives of prayer, and to look again at the things of our faith. It is time to pray for those who already serve in our forces and civilian first responders, and for those who will serve or be called to other service for the nation. That may include some of you here today.’

Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 6 November 2022. ‘The most emphatic of Jesus’ blessings is for those who endure insult and exclusion from the scoffers and deniers of the land. But Paul has more to say in support of those who determine to believe and trust in Jesus…’