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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: Ephesians 4:25—5:2

Do not let the sun go down on your anger. Ephesians 4:26b

Paul gives plenty of relational advice in this passage of scripture, and there is at least one note of instruction that is worth living each and every day of our lives. Don’t go to sleep angry. Anger has a way of festering when the world goes dark, and we are left tossing and turning through the night, getting ever more worked up about contentious relationships and difficult encounters. What a blessing it would be to marriages if couples would commit to staying…

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