Friends,

On Sunday, I preached about the first Palm Sunday, and the ways the defiant story of the Passover made Jesus' procession into occupied Jerusalem a dangerous, provocative event. Matthew's Gospel says that "the whole city was in turmoil" as Jesus entered, and then tossed those exploiting the people out of the Temple, and healed the sick. "Who is this?!?," the people of Jerusalem asked?

Who is this? Who do we say Jesus is?

It's an urgent time for the church to be able to speak clearly about who Jesus is. As voices around us claim that Jesus is a figure of judgment who will ride in on a white battle-horse with an army of avenging angels, we proclaim a Gospel that is actually Good News.

Listen to the rest of the sermon here.

With love,
Susan+

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