Sermon: Ninth Sunday after Pentecost

Sermon: Ninth Sunday after Pentecost

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Listen to the sermon preached by the Rev. Liz Maxwell on the Ninth Sunday after Pentecost, July 26, 2026.

      Sermon - Pentecost IX 2026 - The Rev. Elizabeth Maxwell

Lessons

You can read the scriptures for this service here: Genesis 29:15-28; Psalm 105:1-11, 45b; Romans 8:26-39; Matthew 13:31-33,44-52.

The image above shows a painted window, “The Parable of the Mustard Seed,” at the YMCA training center for leadership in Kassel, Germany.


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