Tag: palm sunday
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examination for life – a visit from Jesus
Image you know someone who has always dreamed of visiting the Great Wall of China. It probably wouldn’t come as a surprise to hear that someone would want to visit the Great Wall. Parts of that wall were built as long as eighteen hundred years ago by the first emperor of China – most of…
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poem for palm sunday
PALM SUNDAY hymn Time-pressed sedimentary, igneous, metamorphic rocks Burst with anticipation that, human voices stayed, Their moment of unlocked eloquence and Soaring speech might finally arrive. But vocal chords reverberate with ancient choruses, Embodying praise for earth divinely imagined, given, Gathering sentiments of quartz, kingfisher and crocodile: Hosanna! King! Saviour! recoil Impossible words,…
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Wrestling with Jesus – on Palm Sunday
This morning we are looking at a passage from the New Testament – from the twenty-first chapter of Matthew’s gospel. Of course it’s the familiar story of the triumphal entry – it’s the story of Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem, on the way to his death. But before we look at this text, I’d like to…
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palm sunday lamentation
When we imagine the first Palm Sunday, and when we re-enact it in our worship there is a celebratory waving of palm branches, there are joyful cries of hosanna, there are children dancing with ribbons, Palm Sunday is all of these things. It is joy, it is celebration – it is, in the broadest…
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Palm Sunday Reflections
I am among you as one who serves. In abstract – in general, we can get our heads around this idea. Sure, Jesus is one who serves. Jesus washes feet. Jesus touches the leper. Jesus heals a sick child. Jesus provides food for the hungry crowd. In the abstract – in general we can get…
encrusted words 