Sermon for October 4, 2026
A reflection on Christ’s comfortable words: “Come unto me, all ye that travail and are heavy laden, and I will refresh you.” So many of us are tired, worn down by busy lives, angry politics, and a culture of suspicion, our heads bowed over phone screens instead of looking one another in the eye. You don’t have to hate to be able to love. As the Anglican priest John Donne wrote, “No man is an island,” and the promise Jesus makes to lift our burdens is the same promise He makes to every one of us.