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  • Revd. Martin Dale

    Contributing sermons since Jan 1, 2000
Revd. Martin's church

Retired and living in the Diocese of Lincoln
South Witham, Grantham , Lincolnshire NG33 5SL
+44 - 1572-767843

About Revd. Martin
  • Education: 1968-1972 Charterhouse 1973-1976 University of London, Chelsea College 1999-2001 Wycliffe Hall, University of Oxford
  • Experience: 1976 BSc. in Chemistry 1981 European Patent Attorney 1982 Chartered Patent Agent 1980-1994,Patent Attorney in Sandoz Patent Department in Basel, Switzerland 1994-1999 Head of the Group Patent Department of Reckitt and Colman 2001-2003 Curate in the Stiffkey-Bale Benefice and Briningham Association; 2004-2007 Priest in Charge in the Benefice of New Romney and Dymchurch (8 parishes) 2007-2010 Priest in Charge of the South West Framland Benefice (15 parishes!!) 2010-2022 Vicar of the East Marshland Benefice
  • Comment to those looking at my sermons: Please pray before reading any of them to see if the Lord is speaking to you from what I have written. If so, give Him the glory - and do it!! If you have any comments that could constructively add to what I have said, please e-mail me at mndale@aol.com. It is a great encouragement when I hear from people.
  • Sermon or series that made a difference: Series on Abraham Prayer (based on Richard Foster’s book on Prayer)
  • Family: Wife Maddy Children Jonny, Chris and Jeremy
  • What my parents think of my sermons: Sadly they (Arthur and Ludmilla Dale) have both died and never heard my sermons
  • What my spouse (really) thinks of my sermons: This is an apocryphal story When we were moving house from Frisby on the Wreake, we were taking the bedroom apart. Under the bed I found two baskets. One with three eggs in and the other with £100. So I asked Maddy what were the tree eggs for. She smiled and said For every bad sermon I put an egg in the basket. I felt quite good. Three bad sermons in three years,. I started to feel happy. Then I asked. And what are the £100 for? She gave me a smile as only Vicar's wives can give she said. "Every time I got a dozen eggs I sold them!"
  • Best advice given to me about preaching: 1. Ask the Lord what you feel he wants you to say in your sermon. 2. Write it down in a single sentence. 3. Once you have written the sermon ask yourself if each new idea or story in your sermon illuminates the point - or if it leads down a rabbit warren. If the latter - delete ruthlessly. Perhaps the mistranslation of 1 Cor. 13:1 (KJV) might not be so wide of the mark as one might think: "Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels but have not CLARITY, I am become as sounding
  • Books that have had an impact: Christian Leaders of the 18th Century - JC Ryle Happiest People on Earth - Demos Shakharian The Heavenly Man - Brother Yun
  • Hobbies: A Bernese Mountain dog! We have had three Bari, Teddy and now Hudson who is Teddy's nephew
  • If I could Preach one more time, I would say...: We are here for the Great Commission (Mt 28:16-20)
  • Something funny that happened while preaching: When preaching in St. Michael’s Catwick, a bird threatened to dive-bomb me!
  • What I want on my tombstone: That his ambition in life was to be a faithful minister of the Lord Jesus Christ
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  • Easter Sunday Morning In Ad 33

    Contributed on Apr 16, 2025
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    If the Resurrection of Jesus Christ is so important to the Christian Faith (and it is0 why does St John only record four Resurrection appearances in his Gospel

    Swayfield 20-04-2025 Sermon Before I was a Vicar, I was a patent lawyer. So I am keen on evidence. And I do believe we have a reasonable faith And the more I think about it, the most reasonable explanation for my Christian faith is that Jesus died and rose from the dead. For that ...read more

  • The Healing Of The Syro-Phoenican Woman's Daughter

    Contributed on Mar 8, 2025
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    The real lesson of the story of the healing of the Canaanite woman’s daughter is that we must approach Jesus with humility in our prayers.

    The Syro-Phoenican woman Swayfield 15-03-2025 Story: The Cathedral in Freiburg (in Breisgau), Germany had recently installed new magnificent Gottfried Silberman Organ, that took three years to build (1711 to 1714). The Old Cathedral Organist, on retirement had been made Custodian of the ...read more

  • Marriage Is More Than Simply Falling In Love.

    Contributed on Feb 18, 2025
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    Marriage is more than falling in love. Both parties to the marriage have a complementary role to play to the other. And you need to work at it.

    Marriage Foundation Introduction: The marriage covenant predates the Fall I would like to like to go back to the very basics of when marriage was instituted. We first read about it in Genesis 2. I am not talking about a piece of paper saying you are married but to the marriage covenant between ...read more

  • Have You Ever Been Confronted By A Message That Has Transformed Your Life

    Contributed on Feb 12, 2025
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    What is God calling YOU to do in your local Church

    Luke 6:17-31 Have you ever been confronted with a message that changed your perspective? Certainly on the day Jesus spoke the words of Sermon on the Plain, as our Gospel reading is known as, He gave those around Him a new perspective on life with the Beatitudes (the sayings that started with ...read more

  • Church Is Not A One Man Show

    Contributed on Feb 3, 2025
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    We all have a part to play in our church or fellowship. To find out what it is we need to i) prayer ii) read our Bible and iii)m have fellowshop

    Sermon: The Church is not a “one man show” As I was thinking about the sermon for today, I was struck by the thought that the Church is not a “one man show” God calls us to be a community – and the Church has no passengers. As our Bishops often remind us – our baptism is a calling to ministry ...read more

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  • Understanding Justice And Mercy

    Contributed on Dec 2, 2021
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    As we consider the call of John and look forward at Christmas to the birth of Christ, let us look at the content of God’s message to us God knew exactly what he was doing when he sent Jesus to this earth. The Cross wasn’t a “horrible misjudgement” Rather the reason Jesus came into this world ...read more

  • He Who Has The Son Has It All

    Contributed on Dec 31, 2020
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    I wrote this at the end of 2014 Fourteen years from the Millennium seemed a long time and now we are into a new year – again!! I have spent much of last week preparing to lead a pilgrimage to Israel – a new experience for me. And with the new it is good to recall the old. Our Gospel reading is ...read more

  • Road To Emmaus - The Good Samaritan Inn

    Contributed on Apr 28, 2020
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    The Road to Emmaus The scene: A table in the Inn in Emmaus – with a big sign on the Table saying “The Good Samaritan Inn in Emmaus” Luke and Cleopas seated around a Table Cleopas and Luke start talking: Cleopas: Luke, Where’s he gone – he was standing right there and puff - He just ...read more

  • Norman Vincent Peale On Spreading Love

    Contributed on Mar 16, 2013
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    Norman Vincent Peale wrote this: "Ralston Young carries bags for a living but his real job is living the spirit of Christ as a porter in one of the world's greatest railway stations. One day he was asked to take a little old lady to her train. She was in a wheel chair so he took her down ...read more

  • Story: Some Years Ago, I Attended Called A ...

    Contributed on Feb 23, 2013
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    Story: Some years ago, I attended called a conference called “Spring Harvest at Work” in Sheffield (in November 1998). And what was memorable for me was that the conference organisers sprang a surprise interviewee on us – Jim Bakker- a pariah in the Evangelical community. Indeed he was ...read more