SERMONS ON PALM SUNDAY
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Palm Sunday: The Campaign Trail
by Ron Clarkson
Welcome: We want to extend a special invitation to you to join us this Friday night for a special, reflective evening as we focus on the suffering that Jesus experienced. Then on Sunday, please be our guests for one of the Easter services as we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ. This morning we are going to take a look at palm Sunday, at the campaign trail, so to speak, the events that led up to this glorious day where thousands of people were ecstatic about Jesus coming into their town. Let's ask God to teach. PRAYER: Father, we think about Palm Sunday, the memories we have from the past, of the excitement and...
Hail Him! Nail Him!
by J. Gerald Harris
Jesus is making His triumphal entry into the city of Jerusalem. It is a remarkable event recorded by all four Gospels. It is quite unlike anything else recorded about the Lord Jesus in the New Testament. Up until this time Jesus had been withdrawing himself as much as possible from public notice. He had retired to the wilderness. He did not court attention. He avoided anything that hinted of public display. Listen to what the Bible says. In Matthew 12 it says that ''He did not cry, nor strive, nor cause his voice to be heard in the streets.'' In Matthew 16 He charged His disciples that they should ''tell no man that he was Jesus...
The Purpose of Palm Sunday
by Stan Coffey
And the multitudes that went before, and that followed, cried, saying, ‘‘ Hosanna to the Son of David: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord; Hosanna in the highest.’’ (Matt.21:9) The Sunday before Easter Sunday is called Palm Sunday. It is scriptural to call this day Palm Sunday because in John 12:13 we read that they broke palm branches from the trees and lined the streets in front of Jesus Christ as He made His triumphant entry into the city of Jerusalem. ‘‘Much people....took branches of palm trees, and went forth to meet him and cried, ‘‘Hosanna: Blessed is the King of Israel that cometh in the name...
Palm Sunday - The Day the King Came to Town
by Marvin D. Patterson
Attention: We are starting a series of special Easter messages on Sunday Mornings and Sunday Evenings that will lead up to Easter Sunday Morning with the resurrection of Christ! We will examine the last week of Jesus' earthly ministry. During this busy week, the Lord will come into Jerusalem on a colt of a donkey, and have the masses hail Him with cries of adoration. He then cleanses the temple of all the thieves and crooks. Jesus was a man's man. He took a whip and ran the moneychangers out because they were cheating the people who wanted to obtain a sacrifice for temple worship! During His last week, Jesus...
Palm Sunday Reminds Us: God's Word Can Be Trusted
by John Barnett
As we open to John 12, we are looking at the final account of Christ's Triumphal entrance into Jerusalem for His final week of His earthly ministry. After the other three Gospel writers had penned their inspired accounts of this Palm Sunday event in Matthew 21, Mark 11, and Luke 21: more than 30 years later, the last living Apostle, John, sits to write the final pieces that describe that final week. Much like a movie that gets remade into 3-D form, the Gospel by John's 10-chapter account of Christ's Final Week: fills in, and rounds out, what is already recorded in the other three accounts, as the Spirit of God gives us even more...
The Events of Palm Sunday
by Daniel Rodgers
NTRODUCTION: Today we celebrate Palm Sunday, the Sunday before Easter. Christians around the world recognize Palm Sunday as the day Jesus made His triumphal entry into the city of Jerusalem. On this day, prophecy was fulfilled; the prophet Zechariah had recorded this event some 400 years earlier. In Zech 9:9, he said, ''Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.'' Chapter 12, of the Gospel of John, begins the account of Jesus' final week, which culminates in...
In the Shadow with Jesus: Palm Sunday
by Stan Coffey
I would like for us to turn today in God's word to the fourth gospel, the Gospel of John, John Chapter 19. I want us to begin reading Verse 28, and we'll read just two verses, Verse 28 and Verse 29. We've been in a series of studies on The Seven Last Words Of Jesus From The Cross. We've called this series of studies IN THE SHADOW WITH JESUS. And then next Sunday we will be finishing up this series on Sunday morning and Sunday night, and then the next Sunday, of course, will be resurrection Sunday, Easter Sunday. And these series of messages on the death of Christ take us through this Easter...
How Would You Have Been Cast in the Palm Sunday Drama?
by Nelson Price
JESUS CHRIST was about to walk across history's stage for the last time. Having spent the night with friends in Bethany, He prepared to go to Jerusalem. Use your ingenious imagination and come visit the scene. I had the joy of being there just days ago. Bethany is on the eastern slopes of the Mount of Olives. It was and is a small village. The name Bethany meant ''house of the miserable'' or ''house of the poor.'' Christ relates to all classes. He had dinner with the rich man Zacchaeus just days before. History has preserved for us an interesting fact. When pilgrims came to Jerusalem for great celebrations, each region had...
Sunday's Coming!
by Jerry Branch
What did Jesus accomplish on our behalf? After seeing the pictorial dramatization of the events leading up to Easter, does the Easter Message end with the empty tomb of Christ? Or does the 'concept' of ''It's Friday, but Sunday's coming'' extend beyond the Easter story? Is the story still going on? And IS there still more to come? Read along with me this morning, The Resurrection 24 On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb. 2 They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, 3 but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord...
Palm Sunday
by Bob Wickizer
t was disgusting ''...what evil has he done?'' I sometimes refer to Palm Sunday as ''schizophrenic Sunday.'' We enter Jerusalem triumphantly with Jesus our king. We end the day with our king mocked, scourged and brutally crucified. The emotional difference between the two events disorients us. Some people will miss attending services on Good Friday so Palm Sunday serves double duty as the crucifixion bridge between Lent and Easter. Sometimes we want to skip right through the ugly details of Good Friday and get onto the important part of the story - the resurrection. Our desire to keep Palm Sunday upbeat and...
Palm Sunday
by Kenneth C. Kroohs
Our next section actually relates to prayer although the authors did not make the obvious connection. I love the definition of a sacrament: ''The outward and visible signs of inward and spiritual grace, given by Christ as sure and certain means by which we receive grace.'' Great definition! The baptismal water is not magic; it is an outward and visible sign, something we can see so that we understand what has happened spiritually. I also like the ''sure and certain'' part. We are saying that as human beings we cannot be absolutely sure that there are no other ways to enter in a right relationship with God. We just know that these...
Jesus and Palm Sunday (10 of 13)
by Donald Cantrell
This sermon contains a fully alliterated outline, with sub-points. The coronation of Queen Victoria took place on 28 June 1838, just over a year after she succeeded to the throne at the age of 18. The procession to and from the ceremony at Westminster Abbey was witnessed by unprecedentedly huge crowds, as the new railways made it easier for an estimated 400,000 to come to London from the rest of the country. The ceremony cost 6.41 million as of 2015, which exceeded the 2.46 million as of 2015 spent on that of her predecessor William IV in 1831 but was far less than the18.5 million as of 2015 for the grandiose...
Palm Sunday: Tragedy Or Triumph?
by Nelson Price
The sun was rising rapidly. It was beginning to shoot its golden arrows across the horizon to gild the sky and curtain off the dawn that would bring a new day to the history-filled city of Jerusalem. This is the festive season of Passover. The old city was filled with pilgrims, visitors, and travelers who had come from many countries to share in the feast. Secular census records indicate there were at least 2,500,000 people in Jerusalem for the event. An exciting rumor spread through the city: ''Jesus Christ is coming!'' Behind Him were His sermons; ahead, His suffering. Behind Him were His parables; ahead, His passion. Behind Him were...
Hung on a Cross: A Palm Sunday Sermon
by Fenton Moorhead
If God and Jesus are hard for you and faith does not make sense, please allow me to make a suggestion. Faith in God cannot be adequately explained by human reason. As humans we are finite and limited in knowledge and understanding. Scripture says that as humans we are like a flower that blooms, then quickly fades and withers, and is soon no more. When we talk about the things of God it takes faith that appreciates what cannot be exhaustively explained and is beyond being reduced to human reason. The extent of my ability to think and understand eternity on my own is like dust on a scale, imperceptible. If we are...
The Message of the Colt - A Palm Sunday Sermon
by George H. Morrison
In the calendar of the Western Church today is the Sunday which is known as Palm Sunday. It is the Sunday preceding Easter Day which commemorates the triumphal entry into Jerusalem. Churches are decorated with palms today in remembrance of the waving of the palm branches. There are processions in Roman Catholic countries. And all this in memorial of that hour when our Savior took to Himself His royal state, and rode amid acclamations to His capital. Now in our Presbyterian Scotland we lay little stress upon these feasts and festivals. Even Christmas, the kindliest of them all, has only a partial...
Palm Branches to Olive Branches (1 of 5)
by Larry Wynn
Forts my friend and I would build. We would fight off the enemy. The enemy was his older brother and his friend. Trees where I would carve my girl- friend's initials. The tree in my grandfather's yard where I would play while my parents and other family members sat on the porch and discussed life's issues. (The place where I would terrorize the frog who lived in the root system.) Later in life as teen I would lie under the trees and dream of my future. TREES PLAY A MAJOR ROLE IN THE SCRIPTURE. MANY SIGNIFICANT EVENTS TOOK PLACE UNDER TREES. Gen. 18. God told Abraham he would be...
The Last Week: (Palm) Sunday (1 of 8)
by Joe Alain
[Inspiration and ideas found in the sermon introduction, as well as other sections of the sermon comes from John Dominic Crossan's vivid descriptions in his work, The Last Week] Two processions entered Jerusalem on a spring day in the year A.D. 30. It was the beginning of the week of Passover, the most sacred week of the Jewish year. In the centuries since, Christians have celebrated this day as Palm Sunday, the first day of Holy Week. With its climax of Good Friday and Easter, it is the most sacred week of the Christian year. One was a procession of ordinary people, peasants, working class, the other an...
Palm Sunday: Why the Gospel Inspires (1 of 2)
by Steve Jones
Introduction: On March 10th, 2011, the Lakers played the Heat in Miami and lost, 94 - 88. Two and a half hours later, as the clock lurched toward midnight, and as the clean-up crew stuffed popcorn boxes and wrappers into trash bags, Kobe Bryant was still on the Heat's gym floor, launching hundreds of jumpers at the basket. He had returned to the Heat's almost empty arena to go back to work. When asked about his motivation, Bryant responded with the words of Achilles: ''I want what all men want. I just want it more.'' What's YOUR motivation? In your work, family, school, and life - what is your motivation? QUOTE: From ''The...
A Life of Truth (1 of 5)
by Joey Rodgers
For those of you who may not be aware, today is the most sacred day of the year in professional golf - Sunday at the Masters. Yes, at the end of Magnolia Dr. sits a course that meanders thru the tall Georgia pines, past flowering azaleas/dogwoods, and around Amen Corner that presents its eventual champion w/ the most coveted prize in all of golf - the green jacket. So you can be certain I'll be at home today glued to a TV in anticipation of who will win the coveted Green Jacket. My love for golf began when I was 8 yrs old. I grew up going to the Atlanta Country Club to watch the PGA Tour when they came...
The Tragic Side of a Triumphant Event (1 of 4)
by Palitha Jayasooriya
I read a story about a plainly dressed man who went into a church in the Netherlands one Sunday and took a seat near the pulpit. Soon a woman came along and curtly told the man that he was seated in 'her seat'. She then asked him to leave the seat. The man apologized and apparently moved away to a pew reserved for...
