Do All the Good You Can
Photo by engin akyurt on Unsplash This is the sermon that was offered up during Eucharist on September 20, 2020 at Trinity Episcopal Church in Muscatine, Iowa. The Eucharist service was also streamed to Facebook. Services were affected due to the COVID-19 pandemic and all people in person were physically distant and wore face coverings. The scripture readings were Jonah 3:10-4:11, Psalm 145:1-8, Philippians 1:21-30, and Matthew 20:1-16. O God, let us remember that we are to labor in your name, to do your will. May we work to love you and our neighbors, remembering that the last will be first, and the first will be last. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. In a sermon from 1799, John Wesley, an Anglican priest, spoke about his own guiding principles for life. "Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Neither is love content with barely working no evil to our neighbour. It continually incites us to do good: as we have time, and opportunity, t...