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Mark Ellingsen
The theme of Passion Sunday is about how God’s love shines through the cross and changes us.

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The sufferings of the servant in this passage are personified in Israel. That is what the prophet saw in a people destroyed by the Babylonians, their city leveled, their temple destroyed, their artifacts carried away by a jeering conqueror to a foreign land. Suffering, humiliation, and death. But the prophet was originally celebrating the survival of the people and the extraordinary miracle of their return.

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John E. Sumwalt
The Lord God has given me the tongue of a teacher, that I may know how to sustain the weary with a word. (v.4)

Clichés are over-used sayings that sometimes contain common sense wisdom. The depression era standard, “Use it up, wear it out, make it do or go without,” the World War 2 aphorism “Loose lips sink ships,” Franklin Roosevelt’s famous declaration, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself,” and the 1960s civil rights cry, “We shall overcome,” are uplifting and meaningful, despite repeated use.

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Object: A small bottle with some perfumed oil in it. Even better, put the bottle on a string you can wear around your neck. The below photo shows what a typical “Tear Cup” bottle worn around the neck might have looked like.



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The Village Shepherd

Janice B. Scott
I started experiencing difficulties with the concept of truth in my childhood. At first truth had seemed to be absolute, but as I grew older it began to appear to be more fluid. It became obvious that truth could be presented in so many different ways that sometimes it didn't appear to be the truth at all.

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Stan Purdum
(Occurs in all three cycles of the lectionary; see Liturgy Of The Passion, Cycles A and C, for alternative approaches; see also Easter 5, Cycle A, for an alternative approach to vv. 1-5, 15-16.)

Carlos Wilton
(Occurs in all three cycles of the lectionary; see Liturgy Of The Palms, Cycle A; see also The Resurrection Of Our Lord/Easter Day, Cycles A, B, and C for vv. 1-2, 14-24.)

This psalm, titled "A Song Of Victory," has rich associations in Christian liturgy. Portions of it occur in all three lectionary cycles for Palm Sunday (Liturgy Of The Palms), as well as in all three cycles for Easter Day.

The reason for the Palm Sunday connection is plain to see: "Open to me the gates of righteousness, that I may enter through them and give thanks to the Lord" (v. 19).
David H. Webb
There is something about this day that stirs us to the very depths of our being.

Perhaps it is the drama of a most unusual parade with the pathos of a lowly figure riding fearlessly into the jaws of death.

Perhaps it's the festive music and green palm branches that evoke the memory of a day in our own lives when we said yes to Christ -- confessing in our confirmation vows that Jesus Christ is Lord and redeemer, pledging to serve him and to love him forever.

Nancy Kraft
Note: This sermon is intended to be presented before the reading of the Passion narrative as a way to prepare the listeners by reflecting on its significance.

This last week I spent the better part of three days involved in interviews with the Board of Ministry. It was our responsibility to interview men and women in the United Methodist Church. Those being interviewed ranged from their mid-twenties up to a woman who was 68 years old and will be ordained as a deacon at annual conference.
Harry N. Huxhold
Our age has been called a drug culture. Offhand, it would be impossible to estimate the amount of drug abuse in our society. At times we believe that our intense efforts and huge expenditures to curtail drug abuse are successful only to discover otherwise. However, today we are also engaged in a national debate about the medicinal use of drugs as an important part of the health care delivery system. The drug industry is under scrutiny, because of the high cost of the society's reliance upon their products.

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