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Where I Ruminate on the Perils of a Palm Sunday Faith in a Good Friday World
There is a kind of decaffeinated Christianity that wants to quickly slide by Good Friday and get right to Easter, as if Good Friday is a morbid and somewhat unfortunate episode that is dwelt upon only...
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They’ll Know Him in his Cross A sermon for Palm/Passion Sunday on Ephesians...
When Jesus entered Jerusalem on that first Palm Sunday many who looked to him to overthrow the Roman oppressor. His entry not on a charger but on a donkey was a living parable that here was a...
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“The Stones Would Cry Out!” Palm Sunday Ruminations on the Cradle and the Cross
At which end of Jesus’ life should we look for the reason we call him “Lord and Savor?” My friends in the Mercersburg Society put heavy stress on the Incarnation. Others, such as P. T. Forsyth,...
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“I Crucified Thee!” A Sermon for Palm/Passion Sunday
(As we prepare for Holy Week I offer this sermon of mine from 2004, my last year (as it turned out) as pastor at First Church in Pittsfield. Mel Gibson’s controversial film Passion of the Christ had...
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“He knew where he was going!” A Devotion for Palm Sunday
“They were on the road, going up to Jerusalem, and Jesus was walking ahead of them; they were amazed, and those who followed were afraid. He took the twelve aside again and began to tell them what was...
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