All Saints, Jordanhill

Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 2 July 2023. ‘The question posed by our hymn Love Unknown asks: ‘Who am I that for my sake My Lord should take frail flesh and die?’ is answered by Jesus Himself: ‘You are mine. Nobody takes you out of My hand.’’

Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 25 June 2023. ‘Jesus Himself is also divisive. Will we accept Him as the Son of God – and our Redeemer? Will we receive Him as He comes to us or is there an agenda in our lives to which we expect Him to conform? Is he Lord, but subject to our conditions?’

Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 11 June 2023. ‘It is one thing to profess a faith and then to get comfortable in it. To allow it to become routine and predictable. But the challenges here were about believing and trusting.’

Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 4 June 2023. ‘He is there in all His three persons so that we may know Him more deeply in the dimensions of our own lives and in the dimensions of our time here on earth.’

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.’