Sermon: First Sunday in Lent

painting: Christ in the Wilderness, by Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoĭ, 1872

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Listen to the sermon preached by the Rev. Ed Chinery on the First Sunday in Lent, February 18, 2024.

      Sermon - Lent I 2024 - The Rev. Edwin Chinery

Lessons

You can read the scriptures for this service here: Genesis 9:8-17; Psalm 25:1-9; 1 Peter 3:18-22; Mark 1:9-15.


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