Sermon: Second Sunday in Lent

Sermon: Second Sunday in Lent

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Listen to the sermon preached by the Rev. Megan Sanders, chaplain to Canterbury Downtown (the community of Episcopalians as students, faculty and staff at Manhattan’s downtown schools of higher learning), on the Second Sunday in Lent, March 16, 2025.

      Sermon - Lent II 2025 - The Rev. Megan Sanders

Lessons

You can read the scriptures for this service here: Genesis 15:1-12,17-18; Philippians 3:17-4:1; Psalm 27; Luke 13:31-35.

The image above, “God’s Promise to Abram,” was painted by James Tissot (1836-1902) and is part of the collection at the Jewish Museum here in New York City.


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