Sermon: First Sunday in Lent

Sermon: First  Sunday in Lent

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Listen to the sermon preached by the Rev. Ed Chinery on the First Sunday in Lent, February 22, 2026.

      Sermon - Lent I 2026 - The Rev. Edwin Chinery

Lessons

You can read the scriptures for this service here: Genesis 2:15-17, 3:1-7; Psalm 32; Romans 5:12-19; Matthew 4:1-11.

The image above is a detail of a painting of the Temptation of Christ by Sandro Botticelli (c.1445–1510) on the walls of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican.


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