Sermon: Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost

Sermon: Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost

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Listen to the sermon preached by the Rev. Ed Chinery on the Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost, August 16, 2026.

      Sermon - Pentecost XII 2026 - The Rev. Edwin Chinery

Lessons

You can read the scriptures for this service here: Genesis 45:1-15; Psalm 133; Romans 11:1-2a, 29-32; Matthew 15: 10-28.

The image above is of a painting, “Joseph recognized by his brothers,” by Leon Pierre Urbain Bourgeois (1863), in the collection of the Musée municipal Frédéric Blandin in Nevers, France.

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