Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 23 October 2022. ‘The mercy and rewards of God are unearned because they are unearnable. They can only be received in love and joy, which is given in exuberant and extravagant mercy.’

Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 9 October 2022. ‘The question for us is why do some suffer and others not? Why do some find their pleas answered and others meet delay or just silence?’

Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 2 October 2022. ‘To receive Jesus’ agenda in faith is to open doors to a wholly new kind of life. He promises not only a new relationship with God but a new relationship with ourselves and with each other.’

Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 11 September 2022. ‘What God says to us He also says to our King: Fear not, for I have redeemed you. I have called you by name; you are Mine.’

Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 4 September 2022. ‘Discipleship is a long and personal encounter with the love and mercy of God as He directs and prunes our lives so that we may become more of what we already are in His sight.’

Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 28 August 2022. ‘One of the challenges of the times will be as we discover how much we belong to one another and what we can do to support one another.’

Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 21 August 2022.

Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 7 August 2022. ‘It is when people are most indolent in their faith and most inclined to use the church as a vehicle for their political and cultural agendas that is most likely to be caught out and found to be at fault.’

Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 31 July 2022. ‘To be invested solely in the fleeting glamour of our times is to risk losing all of it – certainly at the end of life and possibly as the result of calamity in our own times.’

Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 24 July 2022. ‘God is never deaf or blind. And it is not as if we are telling Him anything He does not already know: rather, we are placing ourselves in His hands so that He may meet us and feed us and fulfil us.’

Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 17 July 2022. ‘The task of the church is to remain centred on Jesus and His teaching. It is still to focus on the salvation that He has wrought and which none other has or can.’

Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 3 July 2022. ‘Paul warns the church that it can live for itself or for the name and purposes of Jesus. Its members can live for themselves and all their physical and emotional appetites, or they can be moved and empowered by the Spirit of the Lord.’

Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 19 June 2022. ‘Whatever the battering we have had to face personally and as a church, the Lord still has a new plan and a new purpose for us.’

Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 5 June 2022. ‘The Holy Spirit is not a special gift for the specially holy: He is there for all who ask and who do so from within their own sense of need and even inadequacy.’

Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 29 May 2022. ‘Today, He is present with the soldiers of Ukraine facing the onslaught of their invaders, and with the starving of Africa as they lack simple access to food and water in the face of drought and civil war and the plundering incompetence of their own governments. He is there with every grieving parent, every crying child and trafficked soul, sold into a nightmare of exploitation and abuse.’

Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 22 May 2022. ‘This is what the release of the Holy Spirit was going to be about. He would be there in the person of Jesus in every time and place and situation.’

Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 15 May 2022.

Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 1 May 2022. ‘Jesus has personal agenda for each of us – and He looks to us to follow Him before all others and all else.’

Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 17 April 2022. ‘Whatever the world may throw at the disciples, it would never undo the power of Jesus’ resurrection.’

There is no sermon in church today, Palm Sunday. Instead, Rev Sydney Maitland and members of the congregation will be reading the Passion Narrative – Luke 23: 1-49. Here, we can enjoy the passage being read by the actor David Suchet …

Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 27 March 2022. ‘Now Jesus was looking for the care of His Mother. And Jesus entrusted her to the care of John, the beloved disciple who would indeed honour and look after her as he would his own mother.’

Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 20 March 2022. ‘This self-sufficiency ethic breeds its own doctrine of survival: defend everything you have with everything you can lay hands on. Let the weak perish and let truth wither. Morality redefines itself in terms of our own interests and is essentially Godless.’