Rev Stephen Gamble
One Reason I Pray...
One reason I pray is that it gives me a time of stillness in an otherwise ever turning world. A time to stop and be myself. To be as...
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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
A Sea without a Shore
How great a being Lord, is thine, Which doth all beings keep! Thy knowledge is the only line To sound so vast a deep. Thou art a sea...
Rev Stephen Gamble
The Rector's Rant
Rant by Me. Scots – 1. noun – an energetic dance or its tune; 2.verb – to make merry, to frolic)
Rev Stephen Gamble
Harvest Fields.
View from Kirklington Churchyard from where you can see harvested fields beyond the wall. It reminds me of the harvest tide hymn, "Come...
Rev Stephen Gamble
Consolation.
Sometimes ministry asks of me more than I am willing to give or bear but by grace there is always consolation that I may yet console...
Rev Stephen Gamble
Consider.
Consider how the wild flowers grow. They do not labour or spin. Yet I tell you, not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one...
Rev Stephen Gamble
From the Rectory May 2018.
“Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.” This picture hangs in the Vestry at Kirklington church. The quote...
Rev Stephen Gamble
From the Rectory April 2018
I have now been Rector of Kirklington, Burneston, Wath and Pickhill for two years. Not long after I started working in these parishes we...
Rev Stephen Gamble
Day Dream No 1, for Clarinet and String Quartet.
"Time spent day dreaming is never wasted" Day Dream No 1, in D, by Stephen Gamble
Rev Stephen Gamble
On the Workings of Providence.
On the Workings of Providence. Or Base Motives. Public Conveniences in North Yorkshire are no longer as convenient, where entry was free...
Rev Stephen Gamble
Harvest
"For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear." Mark 4:28
Rev Stephen Gamble
The Blessings of the Light
All praise to thee, my God, this night For all the blessings of the light. Keep me, oh, keep me, King of kings, Beneath thine own...
Rev Stephen Gamble
The Airplane Oddfellows Jig
Created in response to this Tweet from @Luci_Alessio "There is a trombone, a guitar, and a violin on this flight. I need one of my...
Rev Stephen Gamble
The Moonwort's Lament
A Moonwort is a small fern. I am sorry to say I inadvertently sat on one today up near Carperby. I only know this because after a while...
Rev Stephen Gamble
From the Rectory: Village Life, June 2018
I was recently perusing an encyclopedia entitled, ‘The Oxford Companion to Music’, when my attention was drawn to the entry for Jan...
Rev Stephen Gamble
Youthful Considerations.
Youthful Considerations. Or An Englishman Abroad. Or Even, What is Chinese for Yorkshire Pudding? Today, the last day of my week off, I...
Rev Stephen Gamble
Time and Eternity.
He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from...
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