Get Yoked up with Jesus
This is the sermon that I offered up during Morning Prayer and Eucharist on July 5, 2020 for St. John's Episcopal Church in Dubuque, Iowa. The Morning Prayer service was held via the zoom platform in the morning and an in-person Eucharist service in the afternoon. The in-person service followed protocols for lessening the spread of COVID-19 such as no singing and the wearing of masks. The scripture readings were Zechariah 9:9-12 , Psalm 145:8-15, Romans 7:15-25a , and Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30 . O God, you have taught us to keep all your commandments by loving you and loving our neighbor: Grant us the grace of your Holy Spirit, that we may be devoted to you with our whole heart, and united to one another in love as Jesus taught. In the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Amen. When I was a boy, maybe about seven years old, I was introduced to the responsibility of my own chores. We had a couple small sheds behind our hog house where runts or injured ...