Good morning FC,
Tomorrow is Palm Sunday and the beginning of Passion Week. I’ve attached a guide to the week that we will talk about tomorrow briefly. Here is a thought from Dorothy Sayers about how God participated in suffering.
“For whatever reason God chose to make man as he is–limited and suffering and subject to sorrows and death–he had the honesty and the courage to take his own medicine. Whatever game he is playing with his creation, he has kept his own rules and played fair. He can exact nothing from man that he has not exacted from himself. He has himself gone through the whole human experience, from the trivial irritations of family life and the cramping restrictions of hard work and lack of money to the worst horrors of pain and humiliation, defeat, despair, and death. When he was a man, he played the man. He was born in poverty and died in disgrace and thought it well worthwhile.”
We will again have on service tomorrow and next Sunday (Resurrection Day) at 10:30. We will also have a brief Maundy Thursday service and Good Friday service at FC. These will be short but meaningful times of remembering what our Lord endured for us.
“But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” (Rom. 5:8).
Why does He love us so much?
sd
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Walking with Jesus Through the Holy (Passion) Week |
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Event of the Holy Week |
| Friday | • Arrival in Bethany (John 12:1) |
| Saturday | • Evening celebration, Mary anoints Jesus (John 12:2 – 8; cf. Matt. 26:6 – 13) |
| Sunday | • Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem (Matt. 21:1 – 11; Mark 11:1 – 10; John 12:12 – 18) |
| • Jesus surveys the temple area (Mark 11:11) | |
| • Return to Bethany (Matt. 21:17; Mark 11:11) | |
| Monday | • Cursing the fig tree on the way to Jerusalem (Matt. 21:18– 22; cf. Mark 11:12 – 14) |
| • Condemning the temple (Matt. 21:12 – 13; Mark 11:15 – 17) | |
| • Miracles and challenges in the temple (Matt. 21:14-16; Mark 1:18) | |
| • Return to Bethany (Mark 11:19) | |
| Tuesday | • Reaction to cursing the fig tree on the way back to Jerusalem (Matt. 21:20 – 22; Mark 11:20 – 21) |
| • Debates with religious leaders in Jerusalem and teaching in the temple (Matt. 21:23 – 23:39; Mark 11:27 – 12:44) | |
| • Olivet (Eschatological) Discourse on the Mount of Olives on the return to Bethany (Matt. 24:1 – 25:46; Mark 13:1-37) | |
| Wednesday | • “Silent Wednesday” — Jesus and disciples remain in Bethany for last time of fellowship |
| • Judas returns alone to Jerusalem to make arrangements for the betrayal (Matt. 26:14 – 16; Mark 14:10 – 11) | |
| Thursday | • Preparations for Passover (Matt. 26:17 – 19; Mark 14:12 – 16) |
| After sundown: | |
| • Passover meal and Last Supper (Matt. 26:20 – 35; Mark 14:17 – 26) | |
| • Upper Room discourses (John 13 – 17) | |
| • Prayers in the Garden of Gethsemane (Matt. 26:36 – 46; Mark 14:32 – 42) | |
| Friday | Sometime perhaps after midnight: |
| • Betrayal and arrest (Matt. 26:47 – 56; Mark 14:43 – 52) | |
| • Jewish trial — Jesus appears in three phases in front of: | |
| —Annas (John 18:13 – 24) | |
| —Caiaphas and partial Sanhedrin (Matt. 26:57 – 75; Mark 14:53 – 65) | |
| —Sanhedrin fully assembled (perhaps after sunrise) (Matt. 27:1 – 2; Mark 15:1) | |
| • Roman trial — Jesus appears in three phases before: | |
| —Pilate (Matt. 27:2 – 14; Mark 15:2 – 5) | |
| —Herod Antipas (Luke 23:6 – 12) | |
| —Pilate (Matt. 27:15 – 26; Mark 15:6 – 15) | |
| • Crucifixion (approx. 9:00 A.M. to 3:00 P.M.) (Matt. 27:27 – 66; Mark 15:16 – 39) | |
| Saturday | Jesus’ body in the tomb |
| Sunday | • Jesus’ Resurrection |
| • Resurrection witnesses (Matt. 28:1 – 8; Mark 16:1 – 8; Luke 24:1 – 12) | |
| • Resurrection appearances (Matt. 28:9 – 20; Luke 24:13 – 53; John 20 – 21) | |