Sermon: Fifth Sunday in Lent

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Listen to the sermon preached by the Rev. Ed Chinery on the Fifth Sunday in Lent, April 6, 2025.

      Sermon - Lent V 2025 - The Rev. Edwin Chinery

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You can read the scriptures for this service here: Isaiah 43:16-21; Psalm 126; Philippians 3:4b-14; John 12:1-8.

The illustration above, “Nardostachys grandiflora,” probably by John Nugent Fitch (1840-1927), comes from Curtis’s Botanical Magazine, Vol. 107 (1881), and shows the flowering plant from which spikenard (the ancient nard) is derived.

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