Sermon: Sixth Sunday after the Epiphany

painting showing a group of wealth people on the left and a group of poor people on the right in Victorian England

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Listen to the sermon preached by the Rev. Ed Chinery on the Sixth Sunday after the Epiphany, February 16, 2025.

      Sermon - Epiphany VI 2025 - The Rev. Edwin Chinery

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You can read the scriptures for this service here: Jeremiah 17:5-10; Psalm 1; 1 Corinthians 15:12-20; Luke 6:17-26.

The image above, “Povery and Wealth,” was by painted by William Powell Frith in 1888 and displayed at the Royal Academy in London the following year.

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