Sermon: Fourth Sunday of Advent

An etching of "The Magnificat" by Henri Simon Thomassin, 1724

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Listen to the sermon preached by the Rev. Ed Chinery on the Fourth Sunday of Advent, December 22, 2024.

      Sermon - Advent IV 2024 - The Rev. Edwin Chinery

Lessons

You can read the scriptures for this service here: Micah 5:2-5a; Hebrews 10:5-10; Luke 1:39-55.

(The artwork above is an etching of “The Magnificat” by French artist Henri Simon Thomassin, 1724, and is in the collection of Metropolitan Museum of Art.)

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