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Sermons by Dave Adams LLM

Dave’s career has included time as a journalist, a research tutor in higher education, and an organisational consultant in the UK, India, Hong Kong and parts of Africa, the Middle East and Europe. He has experience working for an international broadcasting organisation, a pan-European satellite educational network, an online news service and a study and research centre focused on international development.

Our faith: where does your story begin?

First Reading       Acts 17.22–31 Then Paul stood in front of the Areopagus and said, ‘Athenians, I see how extremely religious you are in every way. For as I went through the city and looked carefully at the objects of your worship, I found among them an altar with the inscription, “To an unknown god.” What therefore…

The living water quenches all our thirst

John 4.5–15 Hear the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to John All    Glory to you, O Lord.     So he came to a Samaritan city called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired out by his journey, was sitting…

Where on earth is heaven?

Gospel                 John 1.29–42 Hear the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to John All    Glory to you, O Lord.   The next day he saw Jesus coming towards him and declared, ‘Here is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world! This is he of whom I said, “After me comes…

2000 years and still waiting

Gospel               Matthew 3.1–12  Hear the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Matthew All    Glory to you, O Lord.   In those days John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness of Judea, proclaiming, ‘Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.’ This is the one of whom the prophet Isaiah spoke when he said,…

We need the “useful” words

Gospel              Luke 4.16–24  Hear the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Luke All     Glory to you, O Lord.    When he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, he went to the synagogue on the sabbath day, as was his custom. He stood up to read, and the scroll of the…

He does not abandon us

First Reading         Hosea 11.1–11  When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son. The more I called them, the more they went from me;  they kept sacrificing to the Baals,  and offering incense to idols.   Yet it was I who taught Ephraim to walk,  I took them up…

My peace I give unto you

Gospel Reading       John 14.23–29 Hear the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to John Glory to you, O Lord.     Jesus said, ‘Those who love me will keep my word, and my Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them. Whoever does not love me does not…

His power is in love

What a week! We meet for worship this morning as European leaders are meeting in London to address the existential crisis of our time.  There is reason to be afraid. Yet against the blizzard of news reports that we have witnessed this week it is reassuring to recall Andrea’s sermon last Sunday reminding us that…