Passion

Embodying the Passion: Finding our Story in Jesus’ Story

We are meant to follow Jesus, not join Pilate. God's love, God's grace, and God's mercy are abundant and Jesus wants to draw us closer to those. The Passion is meant to draw us in and to reflect the ways that we have embodied different characters at different times in our lives.

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Holy Week Whiplash

What a week this has been for the disciples as we just heard in those two Gospel readings. The week began on Sunday with such joy as Jesus triumphantly entered into Jerusalem on a donkey, with a crowd cheering him on, waving their palm branches and shouting out, “Hosannah, hosannah, hosannah!” And then, in the course of just a few short days, everything changed, everything shifted as Jesus now exited Jerusalem carrying his cross. And that crowd was now jeering him and shouting out, “Crucify him!”