Sermon: Third Sunday after Pentecost

Sermon: Third Sunday after Pentecost

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Listen to the sermon preached by the Rev. Liz Maxwell on the Third Sunday after Pentecost, June 14, 2026.

      Sermon - Pentecost III 2026 - The Rev. Elizabeth Maxwell

Lessons

You can read the scriptures for this service here: Genesis 18:1-15, 21:1-7; Psalm 116:1, 10-17; Romans 5:1-8; Matthew 9:35-10:8.

The picture shown above is “Sheep,” a gouache painting and graphite drawing by Winslow Homer in 1878. It is part of the collection of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.


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