Ser­mon preached by Fr Jeff Park­er at St. Luke’s Enmore, 27th Octo­ber 2019 Joel 2:23–32; 2 Tim 4:6–8, 16–18; and Luke 18:15–30 What must I do to inher­it etern­al life?  This is a ques­tion Luke likes to put on the lips of vari­ous people in his stor­ies.  Earli­er, in Chapter 10, a law­yer on that…

Ser­mon preached by Fr Jeff Park­er at St. Luke’s Enmore, 3rd Novem­ber 2019 Daniel 7:1–3, 15–18; Psalm 149; Eph­esians 1:1:11–23; and Luke 6:20–31 Today, even though we haven’t been through a long and ser­i­ous invest­ig­a­tion into our past, our char­ac­ter and mir­acles we have per­formed, we cel­eb­rate our saint­hood.  I like to remem­ber this by…

Ser­mon preached by Fr Jeff Park­er at St. Luke’s Enmore, 6th Octo­ber 2019 On this feast of St Fran­cis I am taken back in my ima­gin­a­tion to one of the most mem­or­able moments of my life, one that I had nev­er dreamed would hap­pen to me.  This was in 2009 when Michelle and I were…

The best book to read is… Ser­mon preached at St. Luke’s Enmore, Epi­phany 3, 27th Janu­ary 2019 Grow­ing up and attend­ing a Baptist Sunday School, one of the chor­uses we sang often had the words, ‘The best Book to read is the Bible X 2, if you read it every day it will help you…

The First of his Signs  Ser­mon preached at Enmore, 2nd.Sunday after Epi­phany, 20th. Janu­ary 2019 Read­ings: Isai­ah 62.1–5; 1 Cor. 12.1–11; John 2.1–11. This morning’s read­ings from the Old Test­a­ment and Gos­pel, tell the tale of two mar­riages. Old Test­a­ment proph­ets fre­quently spoke of the rela­tion­ship between Yah­weh and Israel as being like a mar­riage…