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.
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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.
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Vicar (part - time) of the Welland Foss Benefice
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In fields near Launde Abbey
Earth's crammed with heaven, and every common bush afire with God. Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

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...

A Day at the Beach: A short story.
Hector is a Jack Russel Terrier, with long legs, and wiry hair. He was running across the beach at full pelt. To the distant observer it...

Sonata for Solo Violin, No 1, in D. By Stephen Gamble
Sonata for Solo Violin, No 1, in D: 'With Inner Melancholy' Preludio: Adagio-Andante-Adagio=Andante Gavotta:Allegro Menuetto: Allegretto...

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...

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...

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...

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....

Sonata for Strings: Memories of Farndale, by Stephen Gamble
Prelude - Quasi Fugue - Quasi Chaconne. From a theme written down, to working out the music in my head, to writing it out. I get quite a...

Sequences: Capriccio for String Quartet. By Stephen Gamble
Capriccio consisting of, Prelude - Intermezzo - Rustic Dance - Disorderly Counterpoint. An electronic version. I have the score should...

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...

The Norfolk Blackberries Jig, By Stephen Gamble.
The Norfolk Blackberries Jig, or David's Land. Written early Autumn 2023, on returning form Norfolk. #musicforsoloviolin #fiddle #violin...

Bagatelle for Two Violins, A Little Dance for Grey Days. By Stephen Gamble.
I didn't actually intend to write this, but sometimes writing music helps me relax if I'm stressed, so one evening recently I jotted down...

Midsummer Evening.
Fantasia on a Shifting Ground: for 4 Violins. Midsummer Evening. By Stephen Gamble. #NewMusic #music #chambermusic

Sinfonia for String Orchestra: In Rutland. By Stephen Gamble
Timings Allegro 0.00 Adagio 8.00 Allegro: A Tixover Jig. 18.02 I have been living in Rutland for a year now, having moved from England's...

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...

A Tixover Jig, by Stephen Gamble
Tixover is a largely stone built village by the Welland in rural Rutland, England. In early spring the fields around the village are full...

The Old Straight Track, Or Alfred Watkins' Jig, by Stephen Gamble
Alfred Watkins (1855 –1935), amateur archaeologist, antiquarian and inventor, and author of 'The Old Straight Track'. Famous, or...

Meditation on Amazing Grace, for Strings, by Stephen Gamble
As I was finalising this music on the 1st of January an article popped up from Google, and I was surprised to read that Amazing Grace was...







