Sermon: Second Sunday after the Epiphany

ancient mosaic of Jesus turning water into wine

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Listen to the sermon preached by the Rev. Ed Chinery on the Second Sunday after the Epiphany, January 19, 2025.

      Sermon - Epiphany II 2025 - The Rev. Edwin Chinery

Lessons

You can read the scriptures for this service here: Isaiah 62:1-5; Psalm 36:5-10; 1 Corinthians 12:1-11; John 2:1-11.

The artwork above is a mosaic of Jesus turning water into wine at a wedding in Cana, from the ceiling of the former Chora Church, ca. early 4th century to 1500 CE (now the Kariye Mosque, 1500 CE to 1945 and 2020 to the present), in Istanbul, Turkey.


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