Sermon: Third Sunday of Advent

Sermon: Third Sunday of Advent

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Listen to the sermon preached by the Rev. Liz Maxwell on the Third Sunday of Advent, December 15, 2024.

      Sermon - Advent III 2024 - The Rev. Elizabeth Maxwell

Lessons

You can read the scriptures for this service here: Zephaniah 3:14-20; Canticle: The First Song of Isaiah (Isaiah 12:2-6); Philippians 4:4-7; Luke 3:7-18.

(The artwork above is “The Preaching of St. John the Baptist,” painted by Pieter Bruegel, 1564-1638, and is in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest.)


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