Sermon: Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost

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Listen to the sermon preached by the Rev. Ed Chinery on the Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost, August 31, 2025.

      Sermon - Pentecost XII 2025 - The Rev. Edwin Chinery

Lessons

You can read the scriptures for this service here: Jeremiah 2:4-13; Psalm 81:1, 10-16; Hebrews 13:1-8, 15-16; Luke 14:1, 7-14.

The picture above, “Christ Teacheth Humility,” is of a painting by Robert Scott Lauder (1803-1869) made in 1847, which was one of the very first works acquired for what eventually became the National Galleries of Scotland.

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This week, Mother Liz reflects on Jeremiah’s symbolic purchase of a field while imprisoned during the Babylonian siege — a striking act of hope amid devastation. Though exile and ruin loomed, Jeremiah preserved the deed as a sign that “houses and fields and vineyards shall again be bought in this land.” In our own times of crisis and uncertainty, we are invited to consider how small, faithful actions can witness to God’s future: investing in justice, caring for neighbors and creation, and nurturing hope for generations yet to come.

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