This Sunday just gone was Palm Sunday, the Sunday beginning the most important week in the church calendar: Holy Week. Easter has certainly come around fast this year (in part because it is still early in the year), with daylight savings here in New Zealand only just coming to an end of Easter Sunday. The Palm Sunday sermon at my church drew on Luke 19:28-40, when Jesus rides on a donkey into Jerusalem on a road covered in the cloaks of the people, to the joyful praise of his disciples. In short Jesus enters in as the Messiah of Israel. (This story is also found in Matthew 21:1-11, Mark 11:1-11 and John 12:12-19).
Tuesday, 31 March 2015
Friday, 20 March 2015
A Blessing as a Curse?
There is a strange phenomenon in the Hebrew Old Testament, where blessing language is used to mean a curse. Okay, bear with me a moment, I know it sounds weird, but it is there in the text and it is this strange feature of a few passages of the Old Testament that I want to look at today.
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