A wandering Aramean was my father…
Preacher: Revd Dr Donald MacEwan Readings: Deuteronomy 26:1-11; Luke 4:1-13 There can be only one starting-place for a sermon today: Ukraine. The news has been relentless all week. Shelling of cities and towns,…
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God’s Life-Altering Call
Preacher: Revd Paul Whittle, Synod Moderator, The United Reformed Church Readings: Isaiah 6:1-8; Luke 5:1-11 In her book “Struggling To Be Holy” Judy Hirst writes: “God can live with the reality that we are sinners…
Calling or Calling it Off
Preacher: Revd Andrea Price, Minister, St Michael’s Church of Scotland, Edinburgh Readings: Jeremiah 1:4-10; Luke 4:21-30 Good morning to you all. It is so nice to be back in St Andrew’s where I spent a very happy year…
My Delight Is In Her
Preacher: Revd Dr Donald MacEwan, University Chaplain Readings: Isaiah 62:1-5; John 2:1-11 Translation is tricky. Just ask anyone who took translation exams in Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian,…
Climate change and the healing of the Nations
Preacher: Alastair McIntosh Readings: Numbers 11: 4-6, 10-16, 24-29; James 5: 13-20 As a Quaker who was raised in the Highland church tradition, Alastair normally delivers his sermons extemporaneously, as was the case…
Wise up
Preacher: Revd Dr Donald MacEwan Readings: Proverbs 1:20-33; Mark 8:27-38 Have you ever been the only person in a cinema watching a film? It’s a slightly strange experience, and has happened to me only once, on a wet…
The ends of the earth
Preacher: Revd Dr Donald MacEwan Readings: Isaiah 35:4-7a; Mark 7:24-37 Why is St Andrews called St Andrews? The reason is found in relics. For hundreds of years, certain bones of St Andrew were kept in this corner…
Ascension: An Exploded View
Preacher: Dr Deborah Lewer, Senior Lecturer in History of Art, School of Culture & Creative Arts, Glasgow University Readings: Acts 1:1-11; Ephesians 1:15-23; Luke 24:44-53 ‘as they were watching, he was lifted up,…
Renewal of Vows
Preacher: Revd Dr Donald MacEwan, University Chaplain Readings: Isaiah 25:6-9; Mark 16:1-6 I’ve given up making predictions. I’ve consistently got things wrong over the virus, and I doubt my predictive powers will get…
Queen, Country and Creation
Preacher: Revd Dr Donald MacEwan, University Chaplain Readings: Isaiah 6:1-8; Luke 24:36-48 Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, ‘Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?’ And I said, ‘Here am I; send me!’…