I did not know it Ser­mon preached at Enmore, Sev­enth Sunday after Pente­cost, 23rd. July 2017 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…

Led by the right way Ser­mon preached at Enmore. Fifth Sunday after Pente­cost, 9th July 2017 Read­ing: Gen­es­is 24: 34–67; Mat­thew 11. 15–19; 25–30 After two har­row­ing stor­ies from the Abra­ham saga- the near deaths of both Ish­mael and Isaac we are relieved this morn­ing to read a love story with a happy end­ing. This is one…

The Lord will provide Ser­mon preached at Enmore, Fourth Sunday after Pente­cost, 2nd. July 2017 Read­ings: Gen­es­is 22.1–14, Romans 6.12–23; Mat­thew 10.40–42. There are some parts of the Bible that I find very dif­fi­cult and I have to res­ist the tempta­tion to get out the scis­sors and quietly remove them: chapter 22 of Gen­es­is is one…