Sermon: First Sunday in Lent

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Listen to the sermon preached by the Rev. Liz Maxwell on the First Sunday in Lent, March 9, 2025.

      Sermon - Lent I 2025 - The Rev. Elizabeth Maxwell

Lessons

You can read the scriptures for this service here: Deuteronomy 26:1-11; Psalm 91:1-2, 9-16; Romans 10:8b-13; Luke 4:1-13.

The image above, “Christ Tempted,” is one of a series of glass mosaics, executed in Byzantine style between the late 12th and the mid-13th centuries by both local and Venetian masters, at the Duomo di Monreale in Italy.


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