Sermon: Last Sunday after the Epiphany

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Listen to the sermon preached by the Rev. Liz Maxwell on the Last Sunday after the Epiphany, March 2, 2025.

      Sermon - Last Sunday after the Epiphany 2025 - The Rev. Elizabeth Maxwell

Lessons

You can read the scriptures for this service here: Exodus 34:29-35; Psalm 99; 2 Corinthians 3:12-4:2; Luke 9:28-36.

The image above of the Transfiguration was painted by Giovanni Bellini, ca. 1426-1516, and is part of the collection of the National Museum of Capodimonte in Naples, Italy.

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