Sermon: Fourth Sunday of Easter

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Listen to the sermon preached by the Rev. Dr. Nancy Wright on the Fourth Sunday of Easter, April 26, 2026.

      Sermon - Easter IV 2026 - The Rev. Dr. Nancy Wright

Lessons

You can read the scriptures for this service here: Acts 2:42-47; Psalm 23; 1 Peter 2:19-25; John 10:1-10.

Dr. Wright serves as Pastor for Creation Care for the New England Synod, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, helping to “green congregations” in their ministry and worship. She served as pastor for Ascension Lutheran Church, Burlington, VT, from 2006 to 2022 and worked with her congregation and ECHO, Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, to create the Congregational Watershed Discipleship Manual. She has worked nationally and internationally in sustainable development and is coauthor of Ecological Healing: A Christian Vision (Orbis, 1993). She is a certified Forest Therapy Guide.


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