Sermons from July 2023
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 a fascinating, complex…
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 all people, whether Jew or…
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,…
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…