Sermon: Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost

Print: "The Unjust Judge and the Importunate Widow"

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Listen to the sermon preached by the Rev. Ed Chinery on the Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost, October 19, 2025.

      Sermon - Pentecost XIX 2025 - The Rev. Edwin Chinery

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You can read the scriptures for this service here: Jeremiah 31:27-34; Psalm 119:97-104; 2 Timothy 3:14-4:5; Luke 18:1-8.

The image above is of a print, “The Unjust Judge and the Importunate Widow,” made in 1864 by John Everett Millais (1829-1896), which is part of the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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