Sermon: Fifth Sunday in Lent

mural: Ezekiel in the Valley of Dry Bones

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Listen to the sermon preached by the Rev. Liz Maxwell on the Fifth Sunday in Lent, March 22, 2026.

      Sermon - Lent V 2026 - The Rev. Elizabeth Maxwell

Lessons

You can read the scriptures for this service here: Ezekiel 37:1-14; Psalm 130; Romans 8:6-11; John 11:1-45.

The image above is from the Dura-Europos Synagogue murals, ca. 245 CE, in the National Museum of Damascus collection. This detail shows three images of Ezekiel (and three images of the hand of God) as described in Ezekiel 37, verses 1, 4 and 7.

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