Palm Sunday

Scripture: Matthew 21:1-11

Last week my wife and I both felt the Lord was leading us to do some simple experiential type services for our weekly get-together. We used a Palm Sunday reading and talked about how the person must have felt when the disciples came to get the donkey. Jesus told them to untie and take it when they found it and if anyone asked what they were doing just reply, "the Lord has need of it". We discussed how we would feel if a couple of guys came up to us and started to drive off in our car saying, "the Lord has need of it". This led to a discussion of what important things in our life the Lord may have need of such as; our time, money, our comfort as we are asked to help others who may not look like us or act like us.

We then read a prayer that began, "May our praise today be soft petals at your feet, Lord Jesus...". We used some of the petals of the beautiful tulips that have sprouted all over our yard and wrote some names of people we were praying for or anything we might want to give thanks about and laid them at the foot of the cross. We talked about how the path into Jerusalem with the people shouting, praising, laying down the palms and clothes was still a path to the cross. Even though the people thought he was coming to be an earthly king.

We ended our time with prayer and anointing a member who wished prayer for healing.