Sermon: Ninth Sunday after Pentecost

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Listen to the sermon preached by the Rev. Ed Chinery on the Ninth Sunday after Pentecost, August 10, 2025.

      Sermon - Pentecost IX 2025 - The Rev. Edwin Chinery

Lessons

You can read the scriptures for this service here: Isaiah 1:1, 10-20; Psalm 50:1-8, 23-24; Hebrews 11:1-3, 8-16; Luke 12:32-40.

The picture above is a detail from a painting, possibly by Anthony Van Dyck (1599-1641), known as “Sunset Landscape with a Shepherd and his Flock,” which is part of the Dulwich Picture Gallery collection in London.

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