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For I am convinced Sermon preached at Enmore, Ninth Sunday after Pentecost, July 30, 2023 Readings: Genesis 29.15–28, Romans 8.26–39; Matthew 13.44–58 This morning’s Genesis reading has Jacob, the supplanter, the deceiver, in the home of his Uncle Laban (his mother’s brother). Here he has found safety after being pursued by his brother, Esau. Having…
I did not know it Sermon preached at Enmore, Eighth Sunday after Pentecost, 23rd. July 2023 Reading: Genesis 28.10–19a Last week’s reading from Genesis introduced us to Jacob, the figure who dominates the next nine chapters of the book and who will later be known as the father of the twelve tribes of Israel. Jacob is…
No Condemnation Sermon preached at Enmore, Sixth Sunday after Pentecost, July 16, 2023 Readings: Romans 8.1–11; Matthew 13: 1–9, 18–23 Chapter 8 of Romans which is our epistle for today, is one of the high points in this most studied letter of the Apostle Paul. In the previous seven chapters Paul has been arguing that…
2 July 2023 ST LUKE’S ENMORE The Revd Michael Deasey Matthew 10.40–42 Jesus said ‘whoever welcomes you welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me’. Or in an older translation ‘whoever receives you, receives me’. Today’s short gospel reading seems to be just an exhortation on the meaning…
25 June ST LUKE’S ENMORE The Revd Michael Deasey Matt 10.24–29 ‘I have come not to bring peace, but a sword’. William Goettler is the dean of ministry studies at Yale University and once wrote about his mother-in-law, Connie, a devout and faithful Christian, who nevertheless took exception to something in this gospel passage.…