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The Union of the former Parishes of St. Gerardine's High Church and St. James' Church

Minister: Rev. Geoff McKee.

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When You Wonder If Your Life As A Christian Has Been A Waste Of Time

December 16, 2016 by 2

When John the Baptist was in prison, he sent his followers to ask Jesus if he (Jesus) was the promised Messiah. This seems a strange question when you consider what John had already witnessed in relation to Jesus. It seems John was in that place of doubt and insecurity – when you wonder if your life as a Christian has been a waste of time. In this sermon, based on Matthew 11:2-11, Rev. Geoff McKee draws parallels between John and other notable Christians from the more recent past. He also discusses what this means for our own lives.

The Scripture (Matthew 11:2-11; New International Version) follows immediately below. After that comes the sermon. You can download a copy of the sermon in PDF format by clicking here. [Read more…]

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How we are called by Christ to be the people he has formed us to be

December 5, 2016 by 2

The Scripture for the Second Sunday of Advent is Matthew 3:1-12, which tells of John the Baptist preparing the way for Jesus’ coming. Rev. Geoff McKee’s sermon discusses how we live in ‘the wilderness’ and how we are called by Christ to be the people he has formed us to be, committing our lives in service to him. The Scripture follows immediately below and then Geoff’s sermon. You can download the sermon as a PDF, if you wish, by clicking here.

John the Baptist Prepares the Way
3 In those days John the Baptist came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea 2 and saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.” 3 This is he who was spoken of through the prophet Isaiah:

“A voice of one calling in the wilderness,
‘Prepare the way for the Lord,
make straight paths for him.’”

4 John’s clothes were made of camel’s hair, and he had a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey. 5 People went out to him from Jerusalem and all Judea and the whole region of the Jordan. 6 Confessing their sins, they were baptised by him in the Jordan River.

7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to where he was baptising, he said to them: “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath? 8 Produce fruit in keeping with repentance. 9 And do not think you can say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham. 10 The axe is already at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.

11 “I baptise you with water for repentance. But after me comes one who is more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptise you with the Holy Spirit and fire. 12 His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor, gathering his wheat into the barn and burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”

I arrived early at the War Memorial in Lossiemouth this year for the annual Remembrance Sunday community act of worship.

Some people were gathering already and one gentleman came over and introduced himself to me. He wasn’t a church goer but as we chatted he said to me, “I might just go to the service in the church later”. And, to his credit, he did; and it was good to welcome him.

I remembered him a few days later and I thought to myself, ‘It was no small thing that he did’. [Read more…]

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Christmas Services at St James’ and St Gerardine’s 2016

December 1, 2016 by 2

We look forward to welcoming you to the 2 main joint services over Christmas within the linkage of St Gerardine’s High Church and St James’ Church. Our minister, Rev. Geoff McKee, will be leading the worship on both occasions.

Watchnight Service – Saturday 24 December at 11.15pm

This service is in St James’ (link to location map). Beforehand – from 10.30pm – there will be mulled wine and mince pies in the Fellowship Hall. Everyone is welcome to come to this time of fellowship before the service.

Christmas Morning Service – Sunday 25 December at 10.00am

This service is in St Gerardine’s. Come and celebrate Jesus’ birth.

There is no morning service at St James’ on this Sunday.

 

We hope to see you at one or more of these events.

We wish you health and happiness this Christmas and a peaceful New Year.

 

P.S. From Sunday 01 January 2017, service times will revert to normal, with consecutive services in both churches: i.e. 10.00 am at St James’ and 11.30 am at St Gerardine’s.

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The Secret to Waiting on God

November 29, 2016 by 2

On the First Sunday of Advent, Rev. Geoff McKee has Matthew 24:36-44 as his text. He argues that this apparently-ominous passage from Scripture should be read as helping us understand the secret to waiting on God, as we wait expectantly for Christmas.  The Scripture follows immediately below (New International Version) and then Geoff’s sermon.  The sermon itself can also be downloaded as a PDF by clicking here (77kB; download begins immediately).

The Day and Hour Unknown

36 “But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. 37 As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 38 For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; 39 and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 40 Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left. 41 Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left.

42 “Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come. 43 But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into. 44 So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.

Back on 1st August this year, the Daily Mail newspaper printed the following.

“There may still be 146 sleeps to go until Christmas, but that hasn’t stopped Selfridges from launching its festive range a staggering four months early.

The London department store officially threw open the doors to its winter wonderland today, which comprises 3,000 square feet, 50,000 decorations and countless strings of fairy lights.

This year’s theme is ‘shine on’, with everything from neon-hued Christmas trees to multicoloured baubles and ornate tinsel wreaths on offer at the Oxford Street shopping destination. The cheapest items are small ornaments like baubles, while you can splash out on a 7.5ft pre-lit Nordic spruce tree if you have a spare £800 burning a hole in your pocket.

The launch of Selfridges’ now-famous winter wonderland comes 146 days before Christmas, while most of Britain is enjoying the summer holidays – but will further ‘expand’ in the autumn. It claims to be the world’s earliest Christmas store of its kind, with store bosses saying they open early in order to accommodate tourists.”

That’s some excuse, eh?

But, you know it highlights a problem that most of us will have today. We are mentally in Christmas mode already.

This is the beginning of Advent; not Christmas!

The two are not the same thing; neither is Advent a gentle introduction to Christmas.

The feeling of dread that may accompany the Gospel reading today should warn us about that.

We must not fall into the trap of rushing on ahead to the shepherds, angels, manger and all the rest. For this season of Advent, is the season of waiting.

If we do not learn to stop and wait, we cannot be prepared for the celebration to come.

Both Advent and Lent, sharing the liturgical colour of purple, have the same function of attentive waiting; the former for the incarnation and the latter for the resurrection. If we rush, we will miss the significance and we will find ourselves somewhat disorientated and out of kilter.

Traditionally, Advent Sunday majors on the theme of the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.

It is not so much about looking back but instead about looking forward. So, we have this ominous, somewhat frightening text in Matthew’s Gospel.

However, for me, there is a significant problem. I do believe in the second coming of Jesus Christ. I do believe that he will appear again on earth as undeniably the King of all before him: hence the celebration last Sunday. However, I do not believe that the text in Matthew’s Gospel refers to that particular event.

We can become so used to reading it as a description of the second coming that we cannot conceive of it in any other way.

There is a particular branch of Christianity, particularly popular within the United States of America, which teaches a rapture theology, of people being taken to glory while others are left standing. And, of course, this passage in Matthew’s Gospel is cited as a proof text for that particular view.

However, the problem with this is obvious and it’s found in verse 34.

We read there Jesus’ words: “Truly I tell you, this generation will not pass away until all these things have taken place”.

Jesus has given a particular time limit to the events he was describing.

Yes indeed, the events may have originally been understood as referring to the end of the world but only if the world were to end within a small number of years.

As the end of the world has not happened, therefore, Jesus must have been describing something else.

But what? What would the Son of Man be coming to in judgement? Well, history tells us.

In the year AD 70 the Romans destroyed Jerusalem and the Temple, bringing to an end Judaism as everyone had known it to that point in time.

It was a truly cataclysmic event that had a devastating impact on all who lived through it. Some were indeed taken while others remained, but not to glory, instead to death in the terrible events surrounding the fall of Jerusalem.

Now, in saying all of that, it is important to acknowledge that this passage of Scripture reaches forward to us in our generation with power and relevance.

The Fall of Jerusalem was long ago but the reign of Christ and his arrival as King on earth has still to take place. Therefore, we are people who live between the times: between the ascension and the upheaval that followed that and the parousia, his coming again.

We must learn to wait and, in waiting, to decide how to live.

Will we live in apathy or anxiety or will we live in faith and hope?

G. Campbell Morgan once preached:

“Waiting for God is not laziness. Waiting for God is not going to sleep. Waiting for God is not the abandonment of effort. Waiting for God means first activity under command; second, readiness for any new command that may come; third, the ability to do nothing until the command is given.”

Unfortunately, it is all too evident that the church has not discovered this or, if it has, it has chosen not to live it.

That is why the season of Advent is so important in its own right.

Judgement is at the heart of the Gospel text today. But we must remember that these words come from the lips of the judge who has already been judged on our behalf.

As this passage addresses us living between the times, so we find Jesus whatever way we turn: past, present or future. He is sovereign over all history and so we must not allow anxiety and fear to elbow their way forward but instead we must see all things through him who is the King, the Judge and the Judged.

Confused? Well, hopefully not, although these things are not easy for us.

We must never fall into the trap of assuming that we have it all sewn up; that we’ve worked it out and now we can rest content.

No, we are not expected to know everything, but we are expected to do something. We are expected to keep awake. If we keep awake then we are prepared and ready.

Annie Dillard reveals a sad, but poignant, story about what happens when we set out unprepared.

In her book, “Teaching a Stone to Talk” (New York: Harper Collins, 1988), she tells of a British Arctic expedition which set sail in 1845 to chart the Northwest Passage around the Canadian Arctic to the Pacific Ocean. Neither of the two ships, and none of the 138 men aboard, returned.

Captain Sir John Franklin prepared as if they were embarking on a pleasure cruise rather than an arduous and gruelling journey through one of earth’s most hostile environments.

He packed a 1,200 volume library, a hand-organ, china place settings for officers and men, cut-glass wine goblets and sterling silver flatware, beautifully and intricately designed.

Years later, some of these place settings would be found near a clump of frozen, cannibalised bodies.

The voyage was doomed when the ships sailed into freezing waters and became trapped in ice. First, ice coated the decks, the spars and the rigging. Then water froze around the rudders and the ships became hopelessly locked in the now-frozen sea. Sailors set out to search for help, but soon succumbed to severe Arctic weather and died of exposure to its harsh winds and sub-freezing temperatures. For some twenty years, remains of the expeditions were found all over the frozen landscape.

The crew did not prepare either for the cold or for the eventuality of the ships becoming ice-locked. On a voyage which was to last two to three years, they packed only their Navy-issue uniforms and the captain carried just a 12-day supply of coal for the auxiliary steam engines. The frozen body of an officer was eventually found, miles from the vessel, wearing his uniform of fine blue cloth, edged with silk braid, a blue greatcoat and a silk neckerchief — clothing which was noble and respectful, but wholly inadequate.

This is what Jesus is warning us about.

This remains the challenge of the Advent season. We cannot have all that we desire now. We have to wait.

We have to learn to wait, well prepared for all that is to come.

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Good News Club (Sunday School)

November 28, 2016 by 2

The Good News Club (“Sunday School”) meets from about 10:50 am until about 11:30 am.

The children go into the church for the first 20 minutes (from 10:30 am) and they join in the worship along with the congregation for that period.

As part of this, they will sing a couple of hymns and another couple of specifically child-orientated songs.

There is also a children’s talk by Rev. Geoff McKee (or whoever may be there in his place if he is not preaching that week for any reason). This talk is usually on the same general topic as the adults will have as the theme for the sermon (which is itself at a later stage in the service, after the children have gone out to Good News Club).

Geoff invites the children to come forward to the front of the Church for the children’s talk. At certain times of the year, the children will have an active part to play in the service at this point: e.g. lighting the Advent candles during the 4 Sundays in the lead-up to Christmas.

We are lucky to have a large church hall, which is part of the same building as the Church.

We call that hall the Fellowship Hall and that is where we go for Good News Club.

On an average Sunday, these days, we will have up to 5 children of varying ages (0 – 15), which makes it difficult to plan ahead to some extent.

We make use of teaching materials which are very flexible indeed.

The Scripture Union “Light” series of resources has the beauty of being divided into different age groups and it is also teachable successfully whether you have fully prepared ahead of time or whether you are reading the information for the first time at the point when trying to take control of the lesson (!).

Over time, we have done other things, beyond the Light materials, such as writing content for the Church website and even recording our first podcast.

We will always have at least 2 adults with the children and all of them have been fully checked for child protection purposes.

The adults who are involved with the Good News Club are: Peter Brash; Susan McSheffrey; Elaine Halliday; and Elfriede Buchan.

We are keen to provide teaching in the Christian faith as much as possible.  The Scripture Union materials are good at explaining things in a way which is as helpful to adults as to children.

Children are crucially important in the Church.

This is true from a practical perspective (they are the future Church) as well as from a Biblical standpoint – e.g. the story of Jesus and the Little Children (links to Geoff’s sermon on that subject).

Like many churches in Scotland these days, we are seeing a decline in the number of young people attending. We’re hoping to reverse that trend and we have been tapping into some of the available resources on that subject. In April 2016, we were represented at the Community of Faith Conference in Inverness and this article on our website – Rethinking Sunday School – came from that experience.

The “Now You’re Talking” Facebook Group also shares ideas and resources.

We developed a connection to Out of the Box (Scotland) as a result of the Community of Faith Conference and, since then, they have run three Summer Holiday Clubs with us (Navigate (2019), Full Armour (2023) and Amplify (2024)) and also presented one of their Christmas shows in 2023.

In Sunday School, we use materials from their brilliant “IntroSeries” website. We also use materials from a book series called Sunday School in a Tin and our main Bible reference point is Tom Wright’s My Big Story Bible, which we use both in physical form and as audio.

Our main purpose on a Sunday is to look after your children while you are in the morning service.

This enables you to get the maximum spiritual refreshment from your time in Church.

After the service, you can come through to the Hall to collect your child / children. At that time, tea and coffee are served in the Hall and so it’s a good opportunity to meet up with others in the Church and have a blether.

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Jesus Ascends to Glory

May 28, 2025 By 2

Sunday 25 May 2025 is Ascension Sunday.

Christians celebrate the time when Jesus ascended to heaven. Ascension Day itself is generally observed on a Thursday, the fortieth day after Easter.

Today’s Main Scripture

Jesus speaks to his disciples, following his resurrection at Easter and shortly before his ascension:

John 14 (from The Message Bible Translation)
The Road
14 1-4 “Don’t let this rattle you. You trust God, don’t you? Trust me. There is plenty of room for you in my Father’s home. If that weren’t so, would I have told you that I’m on my way to get a room ready for you? And if I’m on my way to get your room ready, I’ll come back and get you so you can live where I live. And you already know the road I’m taking.”

5 Thomas said, “Master, we have no idea where you’re going. How do you expect us to know the road?”

6-7 Jesus said, “I am the Road, also the Truth, also the Life. No one gets to the Father apart from me. If you really knew me, you would know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him. You’ve even seen him!”

8 Philip said, “Master, show us the Father; then we’ll be content.”

9-10 “You’ve been with me all this time, Philip, and you still don’t understand? To see me is to see the Father. So how can you ask, ‘Where is the Father?’ Don’t you believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I speak to you aren’t mere words. I don’t just make them up on my own. The Father who resides in me crafts each word into a divine act.

11-14 “Believe me: I am in my Father and my Father is in me. If you can’t believe that, believe what you see—these works. The person who trusts me will not only do what I’m doing but even greater things, because I, on my way to the Father, am giving you the same work to do that I’ve been doing. You can count on it. From now on, whatever you request along the lines of who I am and what I am doing, I’ll do it. That’s how the Father will be seen for who he is in the Son. I mean it. Whatever you request in this way, I’ll do.

The Spirit of Truth
15-17 “If you love me, show it by doing what I’ve told you. I will talk to the Father, and he’ll provide you another Friend so that you will always have someone with you. This Friend is the Spirit of Truth. The godless world can’t take him in because it doesn’t have eyes to see him, doesn’t know what to look for. But you know him already because he has been staying with you, and will even be in you!

18-20 “I will not leave you orphaned. I’m coming back. In just a little while the world will no longer see me, but you’re going to see me because I am alive and you’re about to come alive. At that moment you will know absolutely that I’m in my Father, and you’re in me, and I’m in you.

21 “The person who knows my commandments and keeps them, that’s who loves me. And the person who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and make myself plain to him.”

22 Judas (not Iscariot) said, “Master, why is it that you are about to make yourself plain to us but not to the world?”

23-24 “Because a loveless world,” said Jesus, “is a sightless world. If anyone loves me, he will carefully keep my word and my Father will love him—we’ll move right into the neighborhood! Not loving me means not keeping my words. The message you are hearing isn’t mine. It’s the message of the Father who sent me.

25-27 “I’m telling you these things while I’m still living with you. The Friend, the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send at my request, will make everything plain to you. He will remind you of all the things I have told you. I’m leaving you well and whole. That’s my parting gift to you. Peace. I don’t leave you the way you’re used to being left—feeling abandoned, bereft. So don’t be upset. Don’t be distraught.

28 “You’ve heard me tell you, ‘I’m going away, and I’m coming back.’ If you loved me, you would be glad that I’m on my way to the Father because the Father is the goal and purpose of my life.

29-31 “I’ve told you this ahead of time, before it happens, so that when it does happen, the confirmation will deepen your belief in me. I’ll not be talking with you much more like this because the chief of this godless world is about to attack. But don’t worry—he has nothing on me, no claim on me. But so the world might know how thoroughly I love the Father, I am carrying out my Father’s instructions right down to the last detail.

“Get up. Let’s go. It’s time to leave here.”

Sermon by Rev. Anne-Marie Simpson

To get straight to beginning of the sermon, click here.

Sermon Text

For 40 days after Easter morning, Jesus remained on earth.

We know of several occasions when he met with some of his disciples.

Mary Magdalene in the dawn Garden, the two walking the road to Emmaus. appearing more than once to those in the upper room. On the shore at sunrise, and now in this final time of parting.

We can only surmise how Jesus spent the rest of this time before his departure. How many others did he meet with, perhaps, who did not record the fact? How many lives did he touch in those final 40 days on Earth?

Just as it was vital for Jesus to prove his resurrection to his followers, so it was very important that he took his leave properly.

His appearances to them could not just stop suddenly. That would leave too much uncertainty in the minds of his friends. Nor could the story that we’ve heard today of this awesome ascension be omitted from the narrative.

People at the time needed to know this part most fully. Indeed, we need to understand exactly where Jesus has gone.

There have to be witnesses. There is much mystery to this story, ascending into a cloud seems, well, rather vague. We desperately want more detail.

Luke gives us a brief description in his gospel and another in the book of the Acts of the Apostles.

Yet, however brief this story is, it is so important for both the disciples and for us today.

The disciples needed closure for them. This is an ending, the end of their time spent with Jesus – i.e. the end of Jesus amongst them present here in this world.

Yet it is also a beginning. The beginning of a brand new chapter for the disciples.

Now they have been given final instructions. Wait here in Jerusalem and show you are empowered by the Holy Spirit, then go out and preach the good news of repentance and salvation to all the world.

They must continue Jesus’ work of justice and compassion, healing and acceptance, but now they must also preach their testament, make new believers and baptise them in the Holy Spirit, not just the people of Israel, but everyone, right around the world.

They are witnesses. They have a testament to share.

And if this work seems impossibly huge to undertake, so very difficult to achieve, then Jesus has promised them a helper. That will be given power through baptism in the Holy Spirit. And so the disciples are not overwhelmed by the task in hand, or cowed under the weight of their commission. Instead, they go back into Jerusalem filled with joy at what Jesus has promised. Filled with joy at what they have seen.

They know exactly where Jesus has gone. They’ve witnessed him rising to heaven with their very own eyes, and there is no room for doubt. Now they have a friend in heaven, a friend whom we believe presents our prayers at the throne of God and intercedes on our behalf. A friend who has sent them a helper, a friend who has always present with us, always available when we need help.

The human Jesus could only be in one place at any given time, but now as a heavenly being, Jesus transcends the spatial and the temporal qualities of this world.

He can be constantly with his disciples. He is constantly with us.

Furthermore, Jesus has promised them that they will follow where he has gone.

Before the crucifixion he has told them that he goes to prepare a place for them. Those words that we say at every funeral, I go to prepare a place for you. Now they understand what that means. One day they too will be in heaven, where they will see Jesus again and live in the presence of their Heavenly Father. They also know that Jesus is listening to their pleas and prayers. He might be out of sight, but he isn’t out of their hearing.

And Jesus has promised to return, to come back one day when everything will be put right, and the whole of creation will be restored to its original state of balance.

The early church watched patiently and diligently for the coming, believing it to be imminent.

But God’s time is not our time, as we are reminded in the second letter of Peter: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years and a thousand years are like a day.

The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness.

But we must keep watch and be prepared for this coming, for this event, so that we are ready to meet with Jesus on his return. Ready for whatever that will mean for us.

Jesus speaks of how his ascension has been written into Hebrew scripture in the laws of Moses, in the writing of the prophets, and in the Psalms, as we’ve heard in Psalm 93, and in Psalm 47.

The signs have always been there, but it would have been impossible for human minds to comprehend what was meant.

The story of death and resurrection and ascension is too full of wonder, too full of awe for us to fully understand. Jesus has ascended to sit enthroned at the right hand of the Father, where, as Paul tells us, he reigns supreme.

In the meantime, the disciples returned to Jerusalem in great joy to spend their time giving thanks in the temple, praying to God, knowing that they are heard, and knowing that whatever happens to them, Jesus awaits them with a place prepared.

And so what does this day of Ascension mean for us?

We’ve been promised everything that the disciples were promised.

We know that God, Jesus has gone before us, and we live in the hope that this and every other promise He has made will be fulfilled. that, through repentance, our sins will be forgiven, and we will go to take up that place, which He has prepared for us in his Father’s house, where we will live forever in the presence of God, reconciled and beloved for eternity.

And the second coming, what will that be like?

The angels in Acts have told us that Jesus will return in the same way as he left, descending from a cloud, perhaps, to the awestruck gaze of the people below.

Will you be there, as generations’-worth of prayers are answered, watching and waiting in joyful expectation, as your Lord and Saviour descends to bring the Kingdom that we pray for to come?

As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

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