St James' Church of Scotland, Lossiemouth
For Christ, For You
Sunday 01 October 2023 is the Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost and it is also Harvest Thanksgiving.
You can access the current weekly intimations for the Church here.
Rev. Geoff McKee asks us to consider what the harvest from our own lives will be and how we can take steps to leave a lasting and meaningful legacy for the benefit of others – even if there is no “harvest” during our own lifetimes.
Welcome to our Harvest Thanksgiving service this morning.
And a warm welcome to any visitors with us today.
Over the next two weeks we are collecting for the Christian Aid Libya Flood Appeal. Pick up your brown envelopes at the front door and return them over the next 2 weeks if you would like to donate towards this appeal.
As an example – £25 could provide one emergency kit with vital supplies for families who have lost everything in the floods.
This Thursday 5th October at 7.30pm will be our next Congregational Board meeting in the hall.
And the next Kirk Session meeting will be the following Thursday 12th October at 7.30pm.
The Indoor Bowling club started last week and will meet on a Friday afternoon from 2pm – 4pm in St James’ hall. They have 2 bowling carpets, fun and laughter, followed by a cup of tea and cake.
The Guild will meet every second Monday at 2pm so tomorrow there will be no meeting, next week Lynne Hawcroft will talk about working with people with impaired hearing.
Sunday 24 September is the Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost. The main Bible reading today is Exodus 16:2-15. The story of God reponding to the grumbling of the Israelites in the wilderness – helping out the Israelites’ leaders, Moses and Aaron, in the face of their disgruntled people.
Rev. Geoff McKee discusses how God hears and answers prayer but how, to His glory, he often confounds our expectations in that regard.
[Read more…]Sunday 03 September 2023 is the Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost. The main Bible text today is from the Old Testament – the Book of Exodus – and it’s the story of Moses encountering God as a Burning Bush (which nevertheless did not burn up). God tasks Moses with a mission which seems almost absurd in its hugeness – and we can all relate to the doubts and fears he expresses to God.
Sunday 27 August 2023 is the Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost. The main reading today is from the Old Testament – the book of Exodus. We hear of the Birth of Moses, one of the central figures in the Bible. His survival depended on various people – from Hebrew midwives to Paraoh’s daughter – disobeying the laws of the land.
Below, you will find the Exodus text and the video of today’s service from St. James’ Church.
Exodus 1:8-2:10 (from The Message Bible Translation)
“A New King . . . Who Didn’t Know Joseph”
8-10 A new king came to power in Egypt who didn’t know Joseph. He spoke to his people with alarm, “There are way too many of these Israelites for us to handle. We’ve got to do something: Let’s devise a plan to contain them, lest if there’s a war they should join our enemies, or just walk off and leave us.”
11-14 So they organized them into work-gangs and put them to hard labor under gang-foremen. They built the storage cities Pithom and Rameses for Pharaoh. But the harder the Egyptians worked them the more children the Israelites had—children everywhere! The Egyptians got so they couldn’t stand the Israelites and treated them worse than ever, crushing them with slave labor. They made them miserable with hard labor—making bricks and mortar and back-breaking work in the fields. They piled on the work, crushing them under the cruel workload.
15-16 The king of Egypt had a talk with the two Hebrew midwives; one was named Shiphrah and the other Puah. He said, “When you deliver the Hebrew women, look at the sex of the baby. If it’s a boy, kill him; if it’s a girl, let her live.”
