Sermon: Third Sunday of Advent

painting: John the Baptist

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Listen to the sermon preached by the Rev. Liz Maxwell on the Third Sunday of Advent, December 14, 2025.

      Sermon - Advent III 2025 - The Rev. Elizabeth Maxwell

Lessons

You can read the scriptures for this service here: Isaiah 35:1-10; Luke 1:46-55; James 5:7-10; Matthew 11:2-11.

The image above is a study depicting John the Baptist in preparation for a larger painting, “Christ Among the People,” by Aleksandr Andreevich Ivanov, 1806-1858, which is part of the collection of The State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow.


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