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Susan Andrews
Susan Andrews is general presbyter of Hudson River Presbytery in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
Reality check: Isaiah 50:4-9a; Philippians 2:5-11; Mark 11:1-11; 14:1–15:47
When I was a child, I loved Palm Sunday because we got to act out the biblical version of a ticker-tape parade. Later I learned of the ephemeral quality of stardom and parades and decided that Palm Sunday and Passion Week belong together. As a pastor, I have accepted the dismal fact that most of our people skip Thursday, Friday and Saturday, slipping from parade pandemonium to Easter ecstasy with none of the suffering and pain.
Suffering and salvation: Jeremiah 31:31-34; Psalm 51:1-12; John 12:20-33
Psalm 51 does not let any of us off the hook—not the progressives, the evangelicals, or the feel-good agnostics.
At home in God: Psalm 23
Whether we are sheep or people or runaway bunnies, we cannot run away from God.
Holy heartburn: Acts 2:14a; 36-41; 1 Peter 1: 17-23; Luke 24: 13-35
Again and again in scripture, pounding hearts become burning hearts.
Jesus appears: Acts 2:14a; 22-32; 1 Peter 1:3-9; John 20:19-31
As a seminarian, I never seemed to be there when Jesus arrived.
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