This night, this holy night, when Jesus says goodbye for now, is the heart of the story. 

Palm Sunday is a day for singing and joyful acclaim - but a cloud hovers on the horizon. 

We are all a slave to time, marching ever forward. Seasons change - summer construction season to fall, almost winter to early thaw, then second winter before a brief spring, back to summer construction. Days have a natural cycle

And then, in grateful appreciation of God’s presence and grace, help our neighbors, our loved ones, and the stranger in our midst, wherever that midst may be.

From our armchairs today, we look at a broken world. We want Jesus to come and overturn the wrongs and the evils, but what if Jesus attacked the constitution of our nation instead and tore it asunder?

Does this couple follow God's decree and promise yet again, or do they manage the current community the same, safe way they have for 13 years, ignoring the new vision?

We will never learn a satisfactory reason behind the senseless violence; the best theories in the world remain speculation.

I don’t know what happened with that gentleman, what he decided, but he taught me a valuable lesson:

My poster was the one with the misspelled “Supper Bowl”, and no pigskin in sight.

In a world of sound-bites, tweets, slogans and jingles, the voices of the prophets are drowned out in waves of hate and misdirection.

the constant is the care the fisher must take in their equipment and the personal investment they need to put into fishing

The waters spilled a little, and from those waters came the Spirit.

Are we too tired from celebrating the birth of Jesus to see the wise men have arrived?

Have we forgotten the child born so for us
End the celebration before it begun?

This is our hope: God comes into this world, but it will not be when we expect it, or how.

Joy is just as powerfully those quiet moments when someone says, "You are loved."

God is coming: prepare the way.

Isaiah tells us to wait. Listen. God is coming, but not how we expect