Sermon: Third Sunday in Lent

painting: Parable of the Barren Fig Tree, by Ludovico Mazzolino

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Listen to the sermon preached by the Rev. Ed Chinery on the Third Sunday in Lent, March 23, 2025.

      Sermon - Lent III 2025 - The Rev. Edwin Chinery

Lessons

You can read the scriptures for this service here: Exodus 3:1-15; Psalm 63:1-8; 1 Corinthians 10:1-13; Luke 13:1-9.

The image above, “Parable of the Barren Fig Tree,” was painted by Ludovico Mazzolino (ca. 1480-1530) and is part of the collection at the Rijksmuseum of art and history in Amsterdam.


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