Sermon: The Sunday of the Passion

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Listen to the sermon preached by the Rev. Liz Maxwell on Palm Sunday, the Sunday of the Passion, April 13, 2025.

      Sermon - Palm Sunday 2025 - The Rev. Elizabeth Maxwell

Lessons

You can read the scriptures for this service here: Luke 19:28-40; Isaiah 50:4-9a; Psalm 31:9-16; Philippians 2:5-11; Luke 22:14-23:56.

The painting above, “Christ and the Robber,” is by Nikolai Ge (1831-1894) and is in the collection of the Kyiv National Art Gallery.


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