Sermon: Fourth Sunday of Easter

detail of painting: Christ as the Good Shepherd, by Lucas Cranach

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Listen to the sermon preached by the Rev. Liz Maxwell on the Fourth Sunday of Easter, May 11, 2025.

      Sermon - Easter IV 2025 - The Rev. Elizabeth Maxwell

Lessons

You can read the scriptures for this service here: Acts 9:36-43; Psalm 23; Revelation 7:9-17; John 10:22-30.

The painting above, “Christus als guter Hirte” (Christ as the Good Shepherd), is a detail from a panel painting attributed to Lucas Cranach the Elder (1515-1586), in the collection of the Angermuseum in Erfurt, Germany.

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