Richard A. Davis blogging
preached at St Paul’s Hills Road, Cambridge Watch this online https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1288961155?t=0h37m15s Readings Deuteronomy 7:1-11 Hosea 4:1-3 Luke 5:1-11 Sermon Let us pray. Dear God, may these spoken words be faithful to the written word and lead us to the living Word, Jesus […]
Reginald John Campbell on free market business competition from the sermon “Christianity and the Social Order” from City Temple Sermons (1903): Unlimited competition is wrong. There is a place for competition, but after a certain point has been reached competition becomes tyranny. […]
Reading – Acts 8:26-40 (NRSV) 26 Then an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Get up and go toward the south to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” (This is a wilderness road.) 27 So he got up and went. […]
Reading – Isaiah 1:1, 10–20 1 The vision of Isaiah son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. 10 Hear the word of the Lord, you rulers of […]
PTC chapel reflection on Acts 16:16-34 and Paul’s exorcising the demon
Dr. Richard A. Davis, PTC Faculty Reading — Isaiah 24:3-6 (NRSV) 3 The earth shall be utterly laid waste and utterly despoiled; for the LORD has spoken this word. 4 The earth dries up and withers, the world languishes and withers; the […]
LEADERSHIP & MANAGEMENT PROGRAMME Institute for Research & Social Analysis – Suva, March 2015 Reflection for Morning Devotions, Wednesday 18 March by Dr Richard Davis, PTC Faculty Reading: James 2:1-9 My brothers and sisters, do you with your acts of favoritism really […]
Preached by Dr Richard A. Davis at St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Suva, Fiji Islands (22 February 2015) Reading: Genesis 9:8-17 Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him, “As for me, I am establishing my covenant with you and […]
Reading: 2 Kings 5:1-14 Naaman, commander of the army of the king of Aram, was a great man and in high favor with his master, because by him the LORD had given victory to Aram. The man, though a mighty warrior, suffered […]
Preached by Dr Richard Davis at St Ronan’s Presbyterian Church, Eastbourne, Lower Hutt, NZ, 31 August 2014 Lectionary Readings Exodus 3:1-15 Matthew 16:21-28 Romans 12:9-21 Sermon I think that it’s fair to say that our culture values busy-ness. Being busy is valued […]