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.…