Lossiemouth Church of Scotland

Sunday 22 November 2020 is the Twenty-Fifth Sunday after Pentecost and Christ the King Sunday.

The Lectionary readings for this week are: Ezekiel 34:11-16, 20-24 & Psalm 95:1-7a;
Ephesians 1:15-23 & Matthew 25:31-46.

The passage from Matthew – The Sheep and the Goats, and its references to the Final Judgement – is the basis of Geoff’s sermon. As usual, below you will find the Scriptures, Prayers, Audio Sermon and Musical Selection forming this week’s virtual service.

This is the service for 15 November 2020, the day when St James’ Church is due to reopen for a (restricted) Sunday service at 10:00am. This is the virtual version for you.

Lectionary Scriptures, Prayers, Audio Sermon and Musical Selection are all below for you.

This weeks’ scriptures are: Judges 4:1-7 & Psalm 123; and 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11 & Matthew 25:14-30. The Matthew text is the basis of Geoff’s sermon.

Remembrance Sunday: 08 November 2020.

Here are the Lectionary readings for this week: Micah 6:1-8; Psalm 121; John 14:1-7, 25-27; 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11. The sermon is based on the Thessalonians text.

The materials below include the full texts of the Lectionary readings, prayers, audio sermon and a musical selection.

1st November is All Saints’ Day and it falls on a Sunday in 2020.

As Rev. Geoff McKee says in today’s sermon: “This is a day of hope in the midst of a relentless pandemic.”

The Lectionary readings for All Saints’ Day are Revelation 7:9-17 and Psalm 34:1-10, 22; and 1 John 3:1-3 and Matthew 5:1-12.

The main text is from Revelation, the final Book of the Bible. Again, according to Geoff: “There is no more challenging book in the Bible than the book of Revelation.”

Geoff explains how the structure of Revelation must be understood before we can extract its full meaning. And how the particular section of the Book – about The Great Multitude in White Robes – can help us to find hope even in a world which may sometimes appear to us to have no future.

This post contains the usual materials: Lectionary readings; prayers; audio sermon; and a musical selection from Kath.

25 October 2020 is the Twenty-First Sunday after Pentecost.

The Lectionary readings for this week are Deuteronomy 34:1-12 and Psalm 90:1-6, 13-17; 1 Thessalonians 2:1-8 and Matthew 22:34-46.

The Deutoronomy text is the focus of Rev. Geoff McKee’s sermon. The death of Moses. “Man proposes but God disposes”: i.e. people can make plans but whether or not they are successful depends on God.

Moses could relate to that.

We must remember that the Church does not need any of us, but we all need the Church.

Read on for all 4 of this week’s Lectionary scriptures, Geoff’s audio sermon, prayers and a Musical Selection from Katherine Robertson.