Sermon: Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost

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Listen to the sermon preached by the Rev. Liz Maxwell on the Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost, “Welcome Back Sunday,” September 21, 2025.

      Sermon - Pentecost XV 2025 - The Rev. Elizabeth Maxwell

Lessons

You can read the scriptures for this service here: Jeremiah 8:18-9:1, Psalm 79:1-9, 1 Timothy 2:1-7, Luke 16:1-13.

The picture above, “The Parable of the Unjust Steward,” is of an etching by Jan Luyken (1649-1712) reprinted in a later edition of the illustrated “Bowyer’s Bible” in the early 19th century.


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