Sermons held at Wellington Church Glasgow
The Rev. Tom Moffat, who will be conducting the Morning Service on Sunday, 29th September, will be using Bible texts from St. Luke chapter 16 verses 19 to 31, and 1 Timothy chapter 6 verses 6 to 19. He says that the article in the following link might usefully be read alongside the texts in preparation for our gathering and … More Come and join our Morning Worship this Sunday (29th September)
The Ancient Mariner is one of the greatest Christian poems in the English language. It deals with the huge themes of our faith – sin and its consequences; repentance; forgiveness; love; mercy and mission – and they don’t come much more momentous than that. … More Sermon – The Ancient Mariner
The book of Job is embedded in Western culture – it has been consistently described in glowing terms – ‘a literary masterpiece’, ‘one of the classics of our heritage’, ‘the most sublime monument in literature’, ‘the imaginative work of a master of dramatic poetry’. … More Sermon Sunday 7th October 2018
The book of Job is embedded in Western culture – it has been consistently described in glowing terms – ‘a literary masterpiece’, ‘one of the classics of our heritage’, ‘the most sublime monument in literature’, ‘the imaginative work of a master of dramatic poetry’. … More Sermon – ‘Beyond Tradition’
Sermon preached by John Bell on Sunday 7th January 2018
We might note that the narrative makes it clear to us that it was not their intellect which brought them to Jesus – their intellect took them to Herod’s palace – to the logical place in which a king might be born. … More Sermon – 1st Sunday in Lent
Preached on Sunday, 04.02.2018 By the Reverend Dr Norman Shanks Just after New Year we had a message with greetings from friends in the United States whom we’ve known for a number of years. We met them in Atlanta, Georgia; they have visited Scotland several times and are planning to come back again this summer. … More Praise be to God, who is in control of this mess
Sermon preached by John Bell on Sunday 7th January 2018
We might note that the narrative makes it clear to us that it was not their intellect which brought them to Jesus – their intellect took them to Herod’s palace – to the logical place in which a king might be born. … More Epiphany (Matthew 2: 1-12; 13-18)
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!
For all sorts of reasons, the story from Genesis we have for today is a difficult story. We find it hard to get into the culture of the time; we know little or nothing of the marriage customs of the time it portrays; we might even find it hard to work out why the story is there at all. … More What is the kingdom of heaven like?
Near the house where I grew up in Stirling there is a shortcut up to the Old Town, the way to the castle; it saves you walking round the long way by the street. It consists of a long staircase, which is quite steep – and it is known locally as ‘Jacob’s Ladder’. It will not be the only one in Scotland, or indeed in the world, because this story of Jacob is one that has captured the imagination – it gives our mind’s eye something to picture, and artists have tried to offer their own interpretation of the dream Jacob had of a stairway to heaven. … More Jacob woke from his sleep and said, ‘Surely the Lord is in this place—and I did not know it!’
I was reminded in preparing this sermon of a book written by Umberto Eco about a tale of plots and threats, a tale invented in the nineteenth century to justify the persecution of the Jews, a tale of their threatened takeover of the world – ‘The Protocols of the Elders of Zion’. … More Thus Esau despised his birthright.
