Sermon: Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost

Sermon: Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost

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Listen to the sermon preached by the Rev. Liz Maxwell on the Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost, September 27, 2026.

      Pentecost XVIII 2026 - Elizabeth Maxwell

Lessons

You can read the scriptures for this service here: Exodus 17:1-7; Psalm 78:1-4, 12-16; Philippians 2:1-13; Matthew 21:23-32.

The image shown above, “Marine. Fyns Hoved” (1902), is of a watercolor by Danish painter and illustrator Fritz Syberg. It is part of the collection of the Statens Museum for Kunst, the National Gallery of Denmark.

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