Sermon: Sixth Sunday of Easter

Payment of the Tithes, or, The Tax-Collector, by Pieter Bruegel the Younger, 1564-1638

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Listen to the sermon preached by the Rev. Ed Chinery on the Sixth Sunday of Easter, May 10, 2026.

      Sermon - Easter VI 2026 - The Rev. Edwin Chinery

Lessons

You can read the scriptures for this service here: Acts 17:22-31; Psalm 66:7-18; 1 Peter 3:13-22; John 14:15-21.

The image above is of a painting, “The Tax-Collector’s Office,” from the workshop of Pieter Bruegel the Younger, 1564-1638, and is part of the collection of the Art Gallery of South Australia in Adelaide.

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