Sermon: Sixth Sunday after Pentecost

Painting: Martha Reproving Her Sister Mary, by Orazio Gentileschi

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Listen to the sermon preached by the Rev. Joo Young Hong, Deacon, on the Sixth Sunday after Pentecost, July 20, 2025.

      Sermon - Pentecost VI 2025 - The Rev. Joo Young Hong

Lessons

You can read the scriptures for this service here: Amos 8:1-12; Psalm 52; Colossians 1:15-28; Luke 10:38-42.

The picture above is “Martha Reproving Her Sister Mary,” a painting by Orazio Gentileschi (1563-1639), which is part of the collection of the Alte Pinakothek museum in Munich, Germany.


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