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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: John 9:1–41

I do not know whether he is a sinner. One thing I do know, that though I was blind, now I see. John 9:25

Faith cannot be fully explained. There are some beliefs that defy logic—and yet you just know them to be true! This does not impress people who place priority on reason and concrete knowledge. Either you have a rational explanation or you don’t, in their opinion. The man born blind said he didn’t know who Jesus was, but he knew that Jesus had healed him. The how of the event didn’t seem…

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