Rev Stephen Gamble
Further Thoughts in Conversation with Joseph Ford.
Further Thoughts in Conversation with Joseph Ford. Or The Missing Stones of Danby Castle Danby Castle, Joseph Ford explains, presents...
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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
Hart Leap
In Joseph Ford’s book, ‘Some Reminiscences and Folk Lore of Danby Parish and District’, there is a chapter entitled ‘Hart Leap’. Joseph...
Rev Stephen Gamble
‘Effing’ the Ineffable in Well.
‘Effing’ the Ineffable in Well Or Absurd Religion I recently visited Well Church (it was ages ago, I just haven’t got round to writing...
Rev Stephen Gamble
I Await the Plaudits of the Crowd.
So Ian MacMillan Tweeted, "I got stuck in an evolving door and couldn’t get rid of my fins." As I was at something of a loose end I...
Rev Stephen Gamble
Fantasia for String Quartet, in G. By Stephen Gamble
Derived from sketches made in the summer of 1998. The Largo (in the middle) is entitled 'The Dandelion Clock' as that's what my wife...
Rev Stephen Gamble
Easter 2019
Last year a parishioner from my former parishes sent me a picture of the Easter Garden she had been caring for in church. The Garden was...
Rev Stephen Gamble
Your ways, O God, are Holy.
Holy Saturday, when hope is entombed, and it is right to ask with the Psalmist and the disciples, “Will the Lord reject forever? Will he...
Rev Stephen Gamble
Way Marker
Took this a while back. It's top of Fryup Dale. I thought I might use it in Holy Week as the cross is a signpost showing disciples the...
Rev Stephen Gamble
Fake News
“What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.” Ecclesiastes 1:9 I am reading...
Rev Stephen Gamble
Perfect Hair.
So I was getting a hair cut today, the barber had apparently successfully lopped off the mass of hair I went in with down to a...
Rev Stephen Gamble
Suprise View, Gillamoor
In the church yard wall at Gillamoor is this inscription, it refers to the view which today although clouded was still beautiful. It is...
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Darkness and Light
God, that madest earth and heaven, darkness and light; who the day for toil hast given, for rest the night; may thine angel-guards defend...
Rev Stephen Gamble
Victory?
I have just finished reading Joseph Conrad’s ‘Victory’, so here is a selection of quotes from it that caught my imagination. It’s not the...
Rev Stephen Gamble
Light Shining out of Darkness
Ye fearful saints, fresh courage take, The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head. From...
Rev Stephen Gamble
Depth and Height.
Praise to the Holiest in the height, and in the depth be praise: in all his words most wonderful, most sure in all his ways.
Rev Stephen Gamble
From the Rectory February 2019.
As a Vicar I mix with a lot of church goers, I also meet quite a lot of people who attend church on an irregular basis, and a few people...
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