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Sermons on Holy Week
We talk about Palm and Passion Sunday in terms of what it means that we read “the passion” of our Lord.
The word “Hosanna” means “Save now!” and the people of Jerusalem were crying out that phrase because of Psalm 118. We take a look at the word and how we can still cry out “Hosanna” to God today.
Easter 2022
Good Friday 2022
We celebrate Palm and Passion Sunday, beginning Holy Week as we talk about how Jesus was broken so that we could be raised imperishable. Deuteronomy 32: 36-39 | Psalm 31: 9-16 | Philippians 2: 5-11 | Luke 23
We continue our Holy Week by commemorating the death of Jesus on Good Friday with a service of shadows called Tenebrae.
We begin our Holy Week by considering how Jesus was much more than anyone could have hoped for from a King. – Zechariah 9: 9-12 | Psalm 118: 19-29 | Philippians 2: 5-11 | Mark 14: 1 – 15: 47
We celebrate Easter Sunday today talking about Jesus’ vocation of Prophet and how Christianity is a future oriented faith. Sermon Scripture: Luke 24:1–12 But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they went to the tomb, taking the spices they had prepared. And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb,…
We talk about Jesus’ kingship and what it means for us to confess Him as our King. Sermon Scripture: Philippians 2:5–9 Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself,…
We talk about the strange way that the Easter story is told in Mark, and how it maybe isn’t so strange after all. Sermon Scripture: Mark 16:1–8 When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices, so that they might go and anoint him. And very early on…