Pastor Bramwell preached this sermon on Ephesians 4:4-6 for the Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity, October 9, 2022.

Sermon Notes

St. Paul wrote that there is _________ body and ________ Spirit and that you were called to the _________ hope that belongs to your call—________ Lord, _______ faith, _________ baptism, _________ God and Father of all.

What are we at risk of forgetting because we live in a pluralistic society?

Today, it’s being taught that Christopher Columbus committed genocide. Is that how Washington Irving spoke of him? Does his personal journal entry from October 12, 1492, communicate hate or love toward the Taino people?

Irving’s description and Columbus’ journal entry reveal a Christian man who lived according to Ephesians 4:1-2. Can the same be said of you as you’re currently living? 

Will you join Pastor in repentance, trusting in the grace of our One Lord?

In to what have you been baptized?

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