Sermon: Celebration of All Saints

Sermon: Celebration of All Saints

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Listen to the sermon preached by the Rev. Liz Maxwell on All Saints Sunday, November 1, 2026.

      Sermon - All Saints Sunday 2026 - The Rev. Elizabeth Maxwell

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You can read the scriptures for this service here: Revelation 7:9-17; Psalm 34:1-10, 22; 1 John 3:1-3; Matthew 5:1-12.

The image shown above is a sculpture by postwar artist Rolf Fässer, “Blessed Are the Peacemakers,” a fountain on the theme of the Sermon on the Mount at the St. Michaels-Heim youth guest house in the Grunewald neighborhood of Berlin.


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