Sunday, March 25, 2018

Palm Sunday

Zech. 9:9: Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.







Image: Henry Martin

7 comments:

Shelly said...

We do a large Passion Play at our church, and last night was the first performance of it for this year. I was in the Palm Sunday scene, and it was so meaningful to me. Thank you for sharing this~

vanilla said...

Shelly, you are blessed to be a participant. We saw a musical pageant "The Borrowed Tomb" at church this morning. 42-voice choir. Tears were flowing-- mine. We simply cannot fully grasp what Jesus did and does for us.

Sharkbytes said...

I love Palm Sunday, but most churches don't seem to pay much attention to it any more. I would have loved being at either of the ones mentioned in the comments above.

vanilla said...

Joan, the preacher read Mark 11:1-11 and based his sermon on it!

Vee said...

Sharkbytes is right. Many churches have forgotten how to celebrate this sacred season.

Sunday at our church, the little people (pre-school through probably third grade) marched through our sanctuary waving palm branches. Entertaining! I hope that at some point they learned something about what they were doing. The sermon started with the appropriate Scripture but ended with a fundraiser promotion for the church remodel. Apparently it is life or death important that the church transform a large space into a coffee bar with appropriate seating and that our second auditorium is remodeled by building a performance stage, installing large projection screens (plural), stage lighting, and state of the art sound equipment. (Likely an afterthought will get a fog machine in there, also.)

Making coffee at home is such a pain and I can't wait for the fund-raiser to pay for all of the hearing aids the (now) young people will need when they are in their fifties. (Oh, I won't be around by then.) I hope the several million dollar price tag means that some people actually come to know Christ and it's not all about entertainment.

Couldn't respond to your blog on Palm Sunday - had to find forgiveness for anger first. And, yes, I am much calmer now (and I want to be Catholic).

vanilla said...

Vee, nothing to do with Palm Sunday, but your interesting story reminded me of a visit to a very large and prominent metropolitan church many years ago. Purpose of the visit: to see the christening of a granddaughter. Many other visitors present as there were several kids getting the "treatment" that day. Preacher's sermon was a severe ripping and scolding of his flock for failure to support the financial needs adequately. What??

Vee said...

Hmmm, Vanilla. Makes one wonder about priorities.