Preached on Sunday, 12.11.2017 By the Reverend Dr. Norman Shanks 30 years ago, when I was chaplain to Edinburgh University, Remembrance Sunday was marked by a special service that started in the University’s splendid historic Playfair Library – the setting at other times for prestigious social or civic rather than religious events. There was an … More Remembrance Sunday
Preached on Sunday, 08.10.2017 By the Reverend Dr. Kathy Galloway Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the scriptures: ‘The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; this was the Lord’s doing, and it is amazing in our eyes’? I have recently been reading about the sorry involvement of Scotland in … More 18th Sunday after Pentecost
Preached on Sunday, 01.10.2017 By the Reverend Dr. Norman Shanks 10 days ago I was in Stirling for a meeting of the Drummond Trust, which was set up in the nineteenth century to promote the Christian Gospel principally, in its early years, through the distribution of evangelical tracts. Over the years the Trust has developed … More Is the Lord among us or not?
Today we reach the end of our journey through the stories of Genesis – and here it is good to remind ourselves, that through all these stories, one story has been being told. It is the attempt to tell the people of Israel where they come from, to tell them how they reached where they are, how it is that other peoples exist, where ancient enmities have come from, and where they as a people belong. … More Thus says the Lord God, who gathers the outcasts of Israel, I will gather others to them besides those already gathered.
This sermon was delivered at Wellington Church, Glasgow on Sunday 6th August 2017. Under the title “A name change!” the Rev. Dr. Roger Sturrock looks at Jacob’s and our struggles with God. … More A name change!
