Sermon: Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost

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Listen to the sermon preached by the Rev. Deacon Br. Andrew Jones on the Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost, August 24, 2025.

      Sermon - Pentecost XI 2025 - The Rev. Deacon Br. Andrew Jones

Lessons

You can read the scriptures for this service here: Jeremiah 1:4-10; Psalm 71:1-6; Hebrews 12:18-29; Luke 13:10-17.

The picture above, “God Touches Jeremiah’s Mouth,” is an historiated initial from the Winchester Bible, produced in Winchester, England, between 1160 and 1175 and on view in the Winchester Cathedral Library.


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