Jesus’ Last Week The World As it Should Be March 25, 2018 (Palm Sunday) Rev. Fritz Nelson – First Presbyterian, Columbiana Text: Matthew 21-27 For a moment, a brief moment on the streets of Jerusalem, we glimpse the world as it should be. In the world as it is, victorious
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Lent 2018: Jesus’ Last Week The Exchange March 18, 2018 (Lent 5) Text: Matthew 27:15-23 Every Holy Week the ritual plays out in congregations around the world. A leader plays the role of Pilate. The congregation plays the crowd. Leader: Whom do you want me to release for you, Barabbas
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Lent 2018: Jesus’ Last Week Pouring it All Out March 11, 2018 (Lent 4) Text: Matthew 26:36-47 On Thursday night, in the garden, on the Mount of Olives, Jesus breaks. Across two millennia of telling the Easter Story we’ve conditioned ourselves to rush pass the garden to the open tomb,
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Lent 2018: Jesus’ Last Week Judas at the Table March 4, 2018 (Lent 4) Text: Matthew 26:14-21 Judas was at the last supper – and Jesus already knew Judas had betrayed him. Let that sink in for a moment. If you knew one of your close friends had already betrayed
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Lent 2018: Jesus’ Last Week The Great Sermon February 15, 2018 (Lent 2) Text: Matthew 21:23 – 25:46 The day after Jesus and his followers had seized the temple; the day after Jesus had welcomed the blind, the lame, the children within the temple’s holy walls, the day after those
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Lent 2018: Jesus’ Last Week Jesus in the Temple February 18, 2018 (Lent 1) Text: Matthew 21:12-17 Jesus leads his followers on a triumphal march into Jerusalem and seizes the temple. Now the temple wasn’t just a building – it was a complex, a campus, 40 walled acres, the most
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