All Saints, Jordanhill

Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 21 April 2024. ‘God is always with us. Like a shepherd – calling us, healing us, tending us, leading us into new pastures, with fresh food and water and shelter.’

Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 7 April 2024. ‘Here is love – and it starts with God and His total self-giving.’

Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 31 March 2024. ‘That is why we gather together, why we worship and find that in the presence of God we also have an identity and a purpose that can never be matched by the wealth, the opulence or even the scientific knowledge of the world.’

Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Maundy Thursday, 28 March 2024. ”Do this in Remembrance of Me’ would become a command to love one another, as they allowed His love to flow through them.’

Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 3 March 2024. ‘Is self the measure of all that we do and are? Is it humanity in its many forms of community and its political doctrines, each locality choosing its own model? Or might it be God?’

Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 18 February 2024. ‘We can make a better sense of the things that hold us back – especially the things that do not have to.’

Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 11 February 2024. ‘The Holy Spirit is still promised to us, to support us in need and to strengthen us in weakness. To bring us to the fulness of Jesus Christ and to support us as we seek to abide in Him.’

Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 28 January 2024. ‘It is when people are more uncertain that perhaps the gospel message can offer a different set of assurances. The peace of God can still live in us when others want to threaten.’

Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 21 January 2024. ‘Are there areas of failure, guilt, regret, inadequacy, shame or anguish? Then we may lay them before the Lord, for we do not have to be defined by them.’

Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 14 January 2024. ‘What we need is the power of Jesus Christ in our lives – to endow us with His personal presence and authority.’

Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 7 January 2024. ‘This is a confident Mary, proud of her first-born, contented in her home. There is nothing defensive here, no cowering in fear.’

Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 31 December 2023. ‘To know His Name in the worship and liturgies of the church is not enough. We also need to know Him for ourselves, and to let Him be named within us just as we also may be named within Him.’