Sermon: Fourth Sunday after Pentecost

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Listen to the sermon preached by the Rev. Ed Chinery on the Fourth Sunday after Pentecost, June 21, 2026.

      Sermon - Pentecost IV 2026 - The Rev. Edwin Chinery

Lessons

You can read the scriptures for this service here: Genesis 21:8-21; Psalm 86:1-10, 16-17; Romans 6:1b-11; Matthew 10:24-39.

The picture shown above is of the painting “The Banishment of Hagar” by Claude Lorrain (1600-1682). It is part of the Alte Pinakothek art museum’s collection in Munich, Germany.

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