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The fol­low­ing ser­mons are lis­ted via date and preacher:

Sunday 23rd July 2023

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…

Sunday 16th July, 2023

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…

Sunday 2nd July 2023

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…

Sunday 25th June 2023

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.…

Sunday 12 January — Nouwen quote

Med­it­at­ive Quote used by Fr John Hawkins at St. Luke’s Enmore, 12th Janu­ary 2020 The voice of des­pair says, “I sin over and over again. After end­less prom­ises to myself and oth­ers to do bet­ter next time, I find myself back again in the old dark places. For­get about try­ing to change. I have tried for…