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…