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The Rev. Dr. Stephen Chapin Garner

Chapin is a native New Yorker, having grown up over the border from New Canaan in Westchester County. His greatest passions in life are being a husband, father, and pastor.
 
Chapin is a graduate of Boston University School of Theology and holds a Doctor of Ministry degree in preaching from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. He has served as a pastor at the Village Church in Wellesley, MA, and the United Church of Christ in Norwell, MA.
 
Chapin has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Alban Institute, an adjunct faculty member in homiletics at Boston University School of Theology and General Theological Seminary, and a resident preacher at the Church at Point O’Woods on Fire Island and the Cuttyhunk Community Church in Gosnold, MA.  Chapin leads the Raymond Preaching Fellowship program for churches in Connecticut. 
 

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The Rev. Dr. Stephen Chapin Garner
Senior Minister

(203) 966-2651, x101
chapin@godsacre.org

Daily Devotion

Read: Psalm 150

Let everything that breathes praise the Lord! Praise the Lord! Psalm 150:6 

The final verse of the final psalm in the Bible is an encouragement for all creation to praise God. In fact, the entire psalm is a call to praise. If you read through the psalms, you quickly realize that they are filled with every human emotion imaginable: gratitude, anger, joy, anguish, faith, doubt, hope, and despair. There are songs of thanksgiving for God’s presence alongside heartbreaking cries of lament in response to God’s absence. These ancient hymns are as emotionally varied and convulsive…

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