Listen to the sermon preached by the Rev. Elizabeth Maxwell on the Twenty-first Sunday after Pentecost, October 18, 2026.
Lessons
You can read the scriptures for this service here: Exodus 33:12-23; Psalm 99; 1 Thessalonians 1:1-10; Matthew 22:15-22.
The image shown above is of a Roman coin. The obverse features a laureate profile portrait of second Roman Emperor Tiberius facing right, surrounded by the inscription TI CAESAR DIVI AVG F AVGVSTVS (Tiberius Caesar Augustus, son of the divine Augustus), which emphasized his right to rule and his connection to Augustus. (The reverse depicts Livia, Tiberius’s mother, seated as the goddess Pax, or Peace, holding a scepter and an olive branch, with the title PONTIF MAXIM, or High Priest.)

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