Listen to Sunday Worship which celebrated the centenary of the ordination of Congregationalist Minister, Constance Coltman, the first woman to be ordained to ministry in any mainstream church in Britain. Also to Daily Service, with Dr Janet Wootton on the same theme. Read about a celebration weekend of events. And (quite literally) buy the T-shirt […]
Sermon given at St. Andrew’s URC Ealing by Revd Sue McCoan 3 Sep 2017 Romans 12:9-21 Matthew 16:21-28 It’s over 20 years ago that Jamie and I went to Australia. We spent a week with my brother, in Perth, and then went off to do the tourist things, including two days at Uluru, then mostly […]
Imagine a church where the one and only priority was to equip disciples for their daily lives. Imagine a church where each person had confidence in the gospel; where each had a clear sense that wherever they were, whatever they were doing, they were part of God’s mission. Imagine a church that cared more about […]
One of my abiding memories of my time at Westminster College was an Old Testament lecturer who came into class one day and, instead of talking to us, broke into song. He sang all the verses of ‘Flower of Scotland’. He’s not Scottish, and it wasn’t Burns Night or anything. But when he’d finished, he […]
A number of members of St. Andrew’s visited Oberammergau in 2010 for the Passion Play. It was, by all accounts, an extraordinary experience. The people of Oberammergau have staged the Passion every ten years since 1634, in gratitude to God for the passing of the Plague from their village. Planning is already well advanced for […]
Thank you to all who baked or bought cakes for this enjoyable occasion on the final Friday in September. I was grateful too to those folk who assisted, serving the coffees and teas, and Barbara Nash organiser of a raffle. Adding to the sum raised were sales of cards and jewellery made by Heather and […]
Sermon given at St. Andrew’s Ealing 2nd July by Revd Sue McCoan Genesis 22:1-14 The story of Abraham and Isaac makes for uneasy reading. What kind of father would put his son through an ordeal like that? What kind of God would ask him to do it? The clue is in the opening line of […]
Sermon given by Revd Sue McCoan 21st May 2017, at St. Andrew’s Ealing Psalm 115; John 14:15-21 If you’ve ever spent any time with small children, or of you were ever a small child yourself, you will very likely at some time in your life have played the game of Peep-bo, or peekaboo. I think […]
In 2012, the URC organised a conference, ‘Opening the Gates to Heaven’, to explore the theology of worship – not just what we do, but why we do it. A second conference, ‘Treasuring Word and Worship’, followed in 2014. Out of this came two things: a small book ‘In Word and Spirit’, containing the discussion […]
Sermon given at St. Andrew’s Ealing Sun 7th May by Revd Sue McCoan Ezekiel 34: 7-15 My brother-in-law is a farmer, mixed arable and beef cattle now, but at one time he also kept sheep. One day when we were visiting, he asked Jamie and me to help him move the sheep from the barn […]
