Ever to X-el
Preacher: Revd Dr Donald MacEwan, University Chaplain Reading: Acts 1:9-14 Congratulations! You have excelled! Graduands, you have completed your assignments, given your presentations, read at least some of the…
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Let there be light!
Preacher: Prof. Stuart Monro, Acting Senior Lay Member, University Court. Readings: Ecclesiastes 3:1-13; Matthew 24:36-44 It is indeed both a pleasure and a privilege to be addressing you today, in this University of…
What a good Christian I am
Preacher: His Excellency Archbishop Claudio Gugerotti Readings: 2 Timothy 4: 6-8, 16-18; Luke 18: 9-14 It is very interesting to observe where we choose to place ourselves when we enter into a church and why. From this…
The Touchstone for our time
Preacher: Revd Samantha Ferguson, Assistant University Chaplain Readings: 1 Timothy 2:1-7; Luke 16:1-13 In the name of the Creator, and the Redeemer and the Sustainer. Amen Good morning, everyone. Well this was not…
A rhetorical question?
Preacher: Revd Dr Donald MacEwan Readings: 2 Kings 5:1-14; 2 Timothy 2:8-15 Am I God, to give death or life? So says the king of Israel in the midst of the story we heard earlier. An Aramean soldier called Naaman has…
Loss, love and light
Preacher: Revd Dr Donald MacEwan Readings: Lamentations 3:17-18, 21-26; Revelation 21:1-6, 22-24 My soul is bereft of peace; I have forgotten what happiness is; So I say, ‘Gone is my glory, And all that I had hoped…
The Most Important Meal of the Day
Preacher: Revd Samantha Ferguson, Assistant Chaplain Readings: Isaiah 61:1-3; John 21:1-13 Good Morning to you all. Especially if you have spent the previous few hours washing away your academic sins in the waters on…
I’ll be there for you
Preacher: Revd Dr Donald MacEwan, University Chaplain Readings: Isaiah 65:17-25; Luke 24:1-12 How do you follow the Hallelujah Chorus? So no-one told you life was gonna be this way Your job’s a joke, you’re broke,…
A changed mind, a full heart
Preacher: Revd Scott McRoberts, St Columba Church of Scotland, Inverness Readings: Isaiah 55:1-9; 1 Cor. 10:1-13 When I was a university student, I remember being hungry much of the time. And it turned out that pot…
Establishing Justice in the Earth
Preacher: Rt Hon Lord Wallace of Tankerness Readings: Isaiah 42:1-7; Matthew 25:31-46 May the words of my mouth and the meditation of our hearts be pleasing in your sight, O Lord, our Rock and Redeemer. Amen. It is a…