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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