Sermon: Seventh Sunday after Pentecost

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Listen to the sermon preached by the Rev. Liz Maxwell on the Seventh Sunday after Pentecost, July 27, 2025.

      Sermon - Pentecost VII 2025 - The Rev. Elizabeth Maxwell

Lessons

You can read the scriptures for this service here: Hosea 1:2-10; Psalm 85; Colossians 2:6-19; Luke 11:1-13.

The picture above, “Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread” (ca. 1906), was taken by photographer Rudolf Eickemeyer (1862-1932) and is today part of the Library of Congress’s Prints and Photographs collection.


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