Rev Stephen Gamble
Sermon for Advent 2: “You brood of vipers!"
Isaiah 40: 3 - 5 3 A voice of one calling: “In the wilderness prepare the way for the Lord; make straight in the desert a highway...
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REV STEPHEN GAMBLE
Music, sermons, notes & videos of my dogs.
Having originally started with posting sermons on this Blog I branched out to include videos of my dogs, articles I have written, and some of my music.
The things I write are as full of inelegance and error as any other quality I may rather they posses, but they may possibly be useful or even entertaining to you - maybe if only to take issue with what I have said.
Vicar (part - time) of the Welland Foss Benefice
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Rev Stephen Gamble
Sermon for the First Sunday of Advent: A Merry Christmas, and a Happy Apocalypse.
Jeremiah 33 14 The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will fulfil the promise I made to the house of Israel and the house of...
Rev Stephen Gamble
Christ the King: A Roman Governor remembers…
1 Timothy 6 12 – 16 Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called when you made your good...
Rev Stephen Gamble
Funeral Homily: Fear God.
Psalm 103 1 Praise the Lord, my soul; all my inmost being, praise his holy name. 2 Praise the Lord, my soul, and forget not all...
Rev Stephen Gamble
Article for July Publications: Prayer.
A key job of a Parish Priest is to pray for the people of the parishes, either in public services, or when in prayer alone. People often...
Rev Stephen Gamble
Tixover Rogation Homily. Why Pray?
Verses from Psalm 104 The Lord wraps himself in light as with a garment; he stretches out the heavens like a tent 3 and lays the beams of...
Rev Stephen Gamble
Article for May Parish Magazines: Ecclesiastical Teams.
“For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ we, though...
Rev Stephen Gamble
Funeral Homily. 'You raise me up!'
1 Corinthians 13 If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal....
Rev Stephen Gamble
4th Sunday of Easter: Are you Proud to be English?
Acts 4: 1-12 The priests and the captain of the temple guard and the Sadducees came up to Peter and John while they were speaking to the...
Rev Stephen Gamble
Easter 2024 Sermon: Death, be not proud.
Holy Sonnets: Death, be not proud By John Donne Death, be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not...
Rev Stephen Gamble
Article for March Parish Magazine
“Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and...
Rev Stephen Gamble
Article for the Parish Magazines: Organised, and Disorganised, Religion.
Are you against 'organised religion?' A lot of people are these days. The thought is that you can be spiritual, but best not to be...
Rev Stephen Gamble
Article for November Parish Publications: Gathering.
I wonder if it is possible to pass a whole day without meeting anyone? I don't mean by hiding behind the sofa, or staying under the...
Rev Stephen Gamble
Article for May Parish Magazines.
Dates for your diaries ( and thoughts for you heads) We have a couple of Rogation services coming up in the Benefice. Morcott Sunday 14th...
Rev Stephen Gamble
Sermon for Coronation Celebration Service.
1 Samuel 8, 1 – 22a When Samuel grew old, he appointed his sons as Israel’s leaders. 2 The name of his firstborn was Joel and the name of...
Rev Stephen Gamble
Article for March Parish Magazines.
Now Quit Your Care. Now quit your care and anxious fear and worry; For schemes are vain and fretting brings no gain; Lent calls to...
Rev Stephen Gamble
Wishing you a Peaceable New Year.
Article for the January Parish Magazines. Isaac Barrow (1630 – 1677) was both a theologian and mathematician, he significantly developed...
Rev Stephen Gamble
Article for the Parish Magazines: Politics and Religion.
The weekend after the Chancellor's 'Fiscal Event', or 'mini budget', the Sunday Lectionary Gospel reading was the Rich man and Lazarus....
Rev Stephen Gamble
Funeral Homily: How to get to Heaven.
John 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 Through him...
Rev Stephen Gamble
Thoughts on the Good Samaritan as Seen Through a Church Window.
The Most Reverend and the Most Irreverent. Or What I saw in Church. Words, picture, and reading by Stephen Gamble (You may go now)
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