“Dear friends, let us continue to love one another, for love comes from God.
Anyone who loves is a child of God and knows God. But anyone who does not love does not know God, for God is love.
God showed how much he loved us by sending his one and only Son into the world so that we might have eternal life through him. This is real love—not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins.
Dear friends, since God loved us that much, we surely ought to love each other. No one has ever seen God. But if we love each other, God lives in us, and his love is brought to full expression in us.”
C.S. Lewis, British novelist, poet, academic, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian, broadcaster, lecturer, and Christian apologist. graphic from Lightstock.com, stock photo site (affiliate link)
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Palm Sunday is one of several “holidays”, or more correctly holy days that Christians “celebrate”, meaning observe, in the weeks before Easter which we call Lent.
Palm Sunday is one of several “holidays”, or more correctly holy days that Christians “celebrate”, meaning observe, during Lent, the weeks before Easter
Christians observe Palm Sunday as a reminder of the day Jesus rode into Jerusalem before being tried and sentenced to death.
Jesus Enters Jerusalem (Mark 11.1-11; Luke 19.28-38; John 12.12-19)
Many people spread clothes on the road, while others put down (palm) branches they had cut from trees. Some people walked ahead of Jesus and others followed behind. They were all shouting,
Edward McKendree Bounds was trained as an attorney, but instead of pursuing a legal career, he entered the ministry in his early twenties. In 1859 he was ordained as pastor of the the Monticello Methodist Church in Missouri.
He edited a Methodist newspaper and wrote books, concentrating on the practice of prayer.
Bounds served as a chaplain in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He was captured by the Union Army in Franklin, Tennessee. After his release, he held weekly prayer sessions there.
I took this photo of the historic Presbyterian Church in Franklin, Tennessee
The “holy days” of Lent
Lent starts with the well-known Fat Tuesday-Mardi Gras and Ash Wednesday.
Holy Week starts with Palm Sunday, illustrated in the Lightstock drawing above.
At my church on Palm Sunday, the preschool-age children march into the sanctuary waving palm branches and singing. The parents and grandparents sit up front, proudly taking pictures and videos. After church, the kids enjoy an Easter egg hunt on the church lawn.
It’s a day to celebrate before we observe the solemn sad day later in the week, Good Friday.
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These three remain, faith, hope and love, and greatest of these is love. 1 Corinthians 13:13, a Lightstock graphic
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