Sermon: Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost

Sermon: Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost

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Listen to the sermon preached by the Rev. Ed Chinery on the Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost, August 30, 2026.

      Sermon - Pentecost XIV 2026 - The Rev. Edwin Chinery

Lessons

You can read the scriptures for this service here: Exodus 3:1-15; Psalm 105:1-6, 23-26, 45c; Romans 12:9-21; Matthew 16:21-28.

The image shown above is of a stone quatrefoil on the western exterior of the Cathedral of Amiens in France, carved around 1220-1240 CE, depicting Moses standing before the burning bush.


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