Matthew

In six short verses, Jeremiah makes sermon illustrations of three different exile stories.

What is a preacher to do with Palm/Passion Sunday?

What is a preacher to do with Palm/Passion Sunday?

What is a preacher to do with Palm/Passion Sunday?

Matthew’s Passion doesn’t show us Jesus’ reactions. We just see his pain and hear his silence.

Matthew’s Passion doesn’t show us Jesus’ reactions. We just see his pain and hear his silence.

We parade into our worship spaces singing “Hosanna,” only to realize we’ve been following Jesus’ hearse.

We parade into our worship spaces singing “Hosanna,” only to realize we’ve been following Jesus’ hearse.

The bewilderment of the women at the tomb gives way to a hope that overturns power, shame, and death itself.

I am struck by how Christ’s desert experience relies on inner convictions resisting an external voice.

I am struck by how Christ’s desert experience relies on inner convictions resisting an external voice.

I am struck by how Christ’s desert experience relies on inner convictions resisting an external voice.

We each have to face mortality alone—but also together.

This is Jesus’ story, after all, and not ours. Unless it is.

What is Jesus’ vocation among us in the time of No Kings?

Who can sort out the ironies and challenges in these four texts? Where is the joy in this kind of salvation?

A new beginning was dawning. Would I lean in and listen?

In those liminal spaces between light’s arrival and its incarnation in the face of my child, I prayed.

In life, death, and resurrection, nothing is lost—no one is lost.

We can’t give up on the kingdom of God.