Sermons from 2023 (Page 2)

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,…

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…

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…