Sermon: Third Sunday after the Epiphany

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Listen to the sermon preached by the Rev. Liz Maxwell on the Third Sunday after the Epiphany and the day of the 198th annual meeting of the parish, January 26, 2025.

      Sermon - Epiphany III 2025 - The Rev. Elizabeth Maxwell

Lessons

You can read the scriptures for this service here: Nehemiah 8:1-3, 5-6, 8-10; Psalm 19; 1 Corinthians 12:12-31a; Luke 4:14-21.

The artwork above is a woodcut by Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, “Ezra Reads the Law,” illustrating Nehemiah 8:1-10, which appeared in Carolsfeld’s folio edition of the Bible, Die Bibel in Bildern (The Bible in Pictures), published in 30 parts between 1852 to 1860.


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