On Sunday I preached from John’s version of the Triumphal entry. It’s a pretty standard telling of the story, but at the end the author makes an interesting self-indictment. “At first his disciples did not understand all this. Only after Jesus was glorified did they realize that these things had been written about him and…
Tag: Holy Week
Hosanna!
This is an edited version of my sermon manuscript for Palm Sunday, 2015. It’s based on Mark 11:1-11. At the beginning of Mark’s Triumphant Entry narrative Jesus got ready to enter Jerusalem I want to unpack three things about how Mark set’s this up. First, we’re not sure if Mark was intending this passage to…
