Sermon: Fourth Sunday in Lent

Sermon: Fourth Sunday in Lent

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Listen to the sermon preached by the Rev. Liz Maxwell on the Fourth Sunday in Lent, March 30, 2025.

      Sermon - Lent IV 2025 - The Rev. Elizabeth Maxwell

Lessons

You can read the scriptures for this service here: Joshua 5:9-12; Psalm 32; 2 Corinthians 5:16-21; Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32.

The image above, “The Return of the Prodigal Son,” is an engraving by Lucas van Leyden (1494-1533) and is part of the Clarence Buckingham Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago.


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