Sermon: Fourth Sunday of Advent

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Listen to the sermon preached by the Rev. Ed Chinery on the Fourth Sunday of Advent, December 21, 2025.

      Sermon - Advent IV 2025 - The Rev. Edwin Chinery

Lessons

You can read the scriptures for this service here: Isaiah 7:10-16; Psalm 80:1-7, 16-18; Romans 1:1-7; Matthew 1:18-25.

The image above is a painting by Georges du Mesnil de La Tour (1593-1652), “The Angel Visiting Joseph in a Dream,” which is part of the collection of the Musée d’Arts de Nantes in France.


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