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The Battle for the Vineyard (A sermon on Matthew 21:33-40)

Posted on August 17, 2014 by Father Dave

Hear another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a winepress in it and built a watchtower. Then he rented the vineyard to some farmers and moved to another place. When … Continue reading →

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The MacDonaldtown Parables (A sermon on Matthew 13:31-33, 44-45)

Posted on July 27, 2014 by Father Dave

[Jesus] put before them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that someone took and sowed in his field; it is the smallest of all the seeds, but when it has grown it is the greatest … Continue reading →

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Standing with Gaza – November 24th 2012

Posted on November 26, 2012 by Father Dave

Standing with Gaza – November 24th 2012 An address given by Father Dave to the ‘Free Gaza’ rally, on the steps of the Sydney Town Hall on Saturday, November 24th, 2012. Sisters, brothers, salam aleykum, shalom, peace to you all. … Continue reading →

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‘Business’ a 20 year rapflection.

Posted on November 20, 2012 by Father Dave

[imaioVideo v=1] ‘Business’ a 20-year rapflection.  Verse 1 We inherited church in its best order Anglicanism of the reformers From Henry VIII and his young daughter Tyndale and Cranmer bled and burned for her. But somehow we just lost the … Continue reading →

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Saving Souls a Counterpunch from Above – SMH

Posted on October 23, 2012 by Father Dave

OUTSIDE the café on Marrickville Road where Father Dave Smith has coffee every morning, a tattooed 20-something is slouched in a chair, sipping on a drink between cigarette drags. Inside, an open newspaper page is headed “Muslim Unrest” above pictures … Continue reading →

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God told me to kill my baby! – a Sermon on Genesis 22

Posted on February 2, 2012 by Father Dave

After these things God tested Abraham … He said, “Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of … Continue reading →

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He kicks punches, and gives sermons – Inner Western Suburbs Courier August 11th, 1997

Posted on January 25, 2012 by Father Dave

HE has a new tattoo (and a needle phobia), mobile phone, boxing gloves, an e-mail address and a ripper sermon. The muscular Reverend Dave Smith, Dulwich Hill’s “Fighting Father”, has also learnt how to work a camera since the Courier … Continue reading →

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Vicar with Ticker – Australia Post, January 5th, 2002

Posted on January 25, 2012 by Father Dave

He’s as comfortable punching as he is preaching – which is just as well for the hundreds of teenagers this fighting father figure has saved from a life on the streets Flying-fisted Father Dave Smith knows all about the school … Continue reading →

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Fighting Father Battles for Youth – Inner City News January 26th, 2004

Posted on January 25, 2012 by Father Dave

Reverend David Smith has used the boxing ring as a way of reaching some of the Inner City’s most troubled youth but it is his hard—hitting approach to religion that has landed him in strife with the Anglican Church. The … Continue reading →

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