Weekly Update from the Senior Pastor
March 29, 2007
Dear Family and Friends,
Holy Week is Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday, April 1-9. A God-opportunity is here again:
You can walk with Jesus, through sacred time, through His final week, which culminated in the Cross and the empty tomb.
Holy Week is really an opportunity more than an inevitable event. It is what you make of it. We can enter it and experience it or we can ignore it as a peripheral blip on our busy radar.
There is definitely no blessing in drifting into it or through it. Holy Week is a trumpet call from the risen Christ: Follow Me.
Participating in Holy Week is a commitment to prayer and Bible study. It begins this Sunday (Palm Sunday) when we hand out our “Walk Through Holy Week” insert, which is a summary of each day from Jesus’ entrance into Jerusalem until Easter Sunday morning.
The insert tells you where to read, in each of the four Gospels (Matthew Mark, Luke and John) the events of each day.
Lots of things are always urgent. We are busy people. In the final analysis of any life, a few things are truly important.
I believe Holy Week is important.
But don’t be legalistic. You probably won’t read all the passages on many of the days. But plan time to read some of them, with prayer for an engaged imagination, then ponder what you take in.
I’ll see you Sunday.
“For what I received from the Lord, I passed on to you as of first importance:
that Christ died for our sins, according to the Scriptures;
that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day—according to the Scriptures…
By this Gospel you are saved, if you hold firmly to the Word preached to you.
Otherwise you have believed in vain.”
1 Corinthians 15:3-4, 2
Hold the Gift firmly this next week.
I love your hearts for our Lord and His church,
Richard
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