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Sermons by Pete Smith

Pete serves as an elder at Deal Christian Fellowship

Advent calendar 2024: Day 18 – Dark nights

This time of year can seem gloomy cold and uninviting. Between the poor weather and the evenings drawing in, it feels pretty dark this time of year, and I’m not sure if it’s because I am an electrician but out of all the decorations I love the lights, where as it can feel as soon…

Advent calendar 2024: Day 14 – Christmas presents

Have you ever given presents with meaning? May be something hand made and it’s great to remember to give is greater than to receive to see a happy face especially the younger generation the excitement as someone is so happy with the gift they have been given, as you get older we have so many…

Advent calendar 2024: Day 10 – Christmas parties

Do you look forward to Christmas parties? Or do they fill you with dread, having lots of work Colleagues that might not be Christian can make you feel like a fish out of water, the world portrays party’s with an abundance of food and drink with the conversation some times not very wholesome there’s a…

Advent calendar 2024: Day 6 – Empty promises

How often do we say at Christmas – whether in a card, or text message – “oh, we must meet up sometime in the new year!” Then we do nothing about it!, or when we meet in the street and say hi how are you doing with no intentions of stoping to find out, We’re…

Advent calendar 2024: Day 2 – Christmas trees

For many of us, we enjoy putting up a Christmas tree in our living room, some a bit sooner than others And unlike anything else, we adapt our lives for it. We move furniture, we don’t mind we can’t see the whole TV, we don’t mind the mess, or the space it takes. We even…