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Podcast: Rotten Apple Seeds
Episode: Sermon for Proper 9, Year A, July 9, 2023
Description: Here is today's sermon, Proper 9, Year A, July 9, 2023. It is based on Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30, "Come to me all who are weary and heavy laden and I will refresh you. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light". Instead of seeing our burdens as some sort of imposition from a Divinity which is alien and withdrawn from us far away, I use the image of the yoke to show that Jesus is present and active among our burdens and challenges. I extend this to Romans 7:15-25a, where I suggest that much of our suffering is from...