On Palm Sunday, two very different processions entered Jerusalem — one of praise and one of power. Understanding both helps us see why the week ahead unfolded as it did, and why it ends in celebration.
On Palm Sunday, two very different processions entered Jerusalem — one of praise and one of power. Understanding both helps us see the full journey from palms to Easter.
On Palm Sunday, we face a choice: celebrate the triumphant joy of the crowd or walk with Jesus into the darkness of the Passion. In the tension between the two, we discover the difference between high hopes and deep hope.
It’s a wild, subversive and glorious scene, full of defiantly high hopes in the face of oppression and threat. The momentum is unstoppable, and the only question now is: how is Jesus going to make it happen? Then Sunday’s King will be plotted against, abandoned, denied, arrested, tortured, mocked and end up defeated in a borrowed tomb. And yet, in the darkest of time, mending and joy happens!
It’s a wild, subversive and glorious scene, full of defiantly high hopes in the face of oppression and threat. The momentum is unstoppable, and the only question now is: how is Jesus going to make it happen? Then Sunday’s King will be plotted against, abandoned, denied, arrested, tortured, mocked and end up defeated in a borrowed tomb. And yet, in the darkest of time, mending and joy happens!
What we most long for is what we most fear to find. What if we did, indeed, see the face of God? The season of Lent calls us to confront our frailty, fallibility and fallenness and yearn for God. The one we have longed for and feared to seek has already and always been seeking us. May we be willing to be found.
What we most long for is what we most fear to find. What if we did, indeed, see the face of God? The season of Lent calls us to confront our frailty, fallibility and fallenness and yearn for God. The one we have longed for and feared to seek has already and always been seeking us. May we be willing to be found.