Sermon: Last Sunday after Pentecost

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Listen to the sermon preached by the Rev. Ed Chinery on the Last Sunday after Pentecost, the Feast of Christ the King, November 23, 2025.

      Sermon - Reign of Christ 2025 - The Rev. Edwin Chinery

Lessons

You can read the scriptures for this service here: Jeremiah 23:1-6; Colossians 1:11-20; Luke 1: 68-79; Luke 23:33-43.

The image above is of a painting, “Christ on the Cross Between the Two Thieves,” by Lucas Cranach (1472-1553), which is part of the collection of the Alte Pinakothek art museum in Munich, Germany.


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