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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.

Christmas is not just for Christmas!

Gospel Reading     Luke 2.41–52  Hear the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Luke Glory to you, O Lord.  Now every year his parents went to Jerusalem for the festival of the Passover. And when he was twelve years old, they went up as usual for the festival.  When the festival was ended and…

Live in anticipation; Live in hope

“This sermon forms part of the series Exploring Faith through the Christian Year – follow this link for more information and to read the sermon in full” Gospel Reading    Luke 21.25–36 Hear the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Luke Glory to you, O Lord. ‘There will be signs in the sun, the…

The seasons of life

Gospel                    Mark 10.2–16 Hear the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Mark Some Pharisees came, and to test him they asked, ‘Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?’ He answered them, ‘What did Moses command you?’ They said, ‘Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of dismissal and to divorce…

One new, united, humanity

Gospel           John 6.24–35 Hear the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to John All        Glory to you O Lord    So when the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they themselves got into the boats and went to Capernaum looking for Jesus. When they found him on the other side of…

Grace and Peace

First Reading          Ephesians 1.3–14 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, just as he chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless before him in love. He destined us for adoption as his…

The elephant in the room ……

Gospel        John 20.19–31 Hear the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to John All        Glory to you O Lord    When it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and the doors of the house where the disciples had met were locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood…

Do we see Advent as an …adventure?

Gospel        Mark 13.24–37 Hear the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Mark All        Glory to you O Lord     ‘But in those days, after that suffering, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will be falling from heaven,  and the powers in the heavens will…