Sermon: Seventh Sunday of Easter

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Listen to the sermon preached by the Rev. Ed Chinery on the Seventh Sunday of Easter, May 17, 2026.

      Sermon - Easter VII 2026 - The Rev. Edwin Chinery

Lessons

You can read the scriptures for this service here: Acts 1:6-14; Psalm 68:1-10, 33-36; 1 Peter 4:12-14; 5:6-11; John 17:1-11.

The image above is of a print, “Two Separate Worlds Secular and Spiritual” (1975), by artist Edie Mae Herrel.


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