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For Sunday (Palm Sunday)
We begin Holy Week with Palm Sunday and move quickly to the Passion. But there’s a lot more there we are called to read.
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Between Lent 5 & Holy Week (Year A)
The gap between Lent 5 and Holy Week is small—or would be if we stayed in John. But instead, we jump back to Matthew.
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A Journey Through Holy Week
The true heart of the story is not only what God wants. But how we struggle to want what God wants. Then and now.
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Palm Sunday is a Head Trip
Celebrating Palm Sunday forces us to recognize what responsibility we have. And what responsibility we pretend we don’t have.
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Serving Others
The new word Jesus offers on Maundy Thursday is not just a holy communion in bread and wine or washing of feet, but a transcending vision of service.
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The Confrontational Jesus
When Jesus confronts the Temple authorities, many in the west struggle to understand that the image isn’t hypocritical: it’s about justice.
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Facing What’s Coming
Palm Sunday helps us see that the story isn’t about greatness or even weakness, but of facing an uncertain future through the grace of God.
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Holy Week at Home
This period of time may be isolating enough. We didn’t need a pandemic to tell us that. But we are presently afforded the opportunity to turn ourselves and our families in mind of something deeper. With that in mind, I wrote a short daily devotion for home use that guides us daily through Holy Week.…