Presbyterian Mission Agency palm sunday Archives

A Corporation to the 225th General Assembly: Administration is ministry

Posted April 21st, 2022

The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), A Corporation turned to one of its own, the Rev. Mark Koenig, to tell its story to the 225th General Assembly.

Eco-Palms: Creativity and caring for Creation in trying times

Posted January 26th, 2022

If ever a year was appropriate to be deemed tohubohu it was 2020. It is hard to believe after all that has happened, that it could even possibly be time to turn our attentions toward planning for Palm Sunday. But even in such a state, with so many things looking different, including how we worship together, life continues.

Eco-Palms: Creativity and caring for Creation in trying times

Posted February 16th, 2021

I recently learned a new word that I thought was appropriate for the year we have all just navigated together: Tohubohu toh-hoo-BOH-hoo a state of chaos; utter confusion.

Hosannas and honks

Posted June 15th, 2020

Where there’s a will, there’s a driveway. And although this year’s Palm Sunday festival procession into an “upper parking lot” more closely resembled a line at a car wash than a celebration of worship, exigent circumstances call for extreme creativity, imagination and grace. And honks over Hosannas.

‘Our church needs more rocks’

Posted March 6th, 2020

“This is our stone-cold moment to be like Jesus, our rock and our redeemer,” Dr. Brian K. Blount told the NEXT Church national gathering Wednesday at the close of a sermon as rousing as it was theologically well-built. The president and professor of New Testament at Union Presbyterian Seminary called on worshipers to “stand on God’s promise … and rock out our world.”

North Carolina conservationist helps promote Eco-Palms

Posted January 22nd, 2020

With roots in a historic family farm in rural Appalachia with an old-growth forest, the Rev. Dennis Testerman is deeply connected to the natural environment and the need to care for it.

A view from the Palm Sunday summit

Posted April 18th, 2019

Asked to preach at both services of the Iglesia Evangélica Presbiteriana Central in Guatemala City on Palm Sunday, the Rev. Jose Luis Casal told the more than 200 people present for the second service, “It’s Palm Sunday. What are we going to talk about? The triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem!”

Palm Sunday: All roads lead to the Paschal mystery of Christ dying and rising

Posted April 10th, 2019

For some growing up, Palm Sunday was a celebration of Jesus entering Jerusalem as a triumphant king. But now, more and more congregations are choosing to celebrate Palm Sunday by including the passion narrative to emphasize that this triumphant moment takes his disciples, then and now, to the cross.

Domingo de Ramos: Todos los caminos conducen al misterio pascual de Cristo muerto y resucitado

Posted April 10th, 2019

El pastorado dialoga sobre el por qué es importante el Domingo de Ramos para el mundo, que conecta los tiempos de Jesús en nuestra era Por Paul Seebeck | Servicio… Read more »

Creating a kid-friendly Holy Week

Posted March 6th, 2019

Imagine the week before Easter, if you will, through the eyes of a 6-year-old. The sanctuary on Palm Sunday looks different, to say the least. Big green branches are being waved, shouts of “Hosanna!” are called out from the usually orderly people in the pews, and the pastor talks of a parade with a king entering the city, surrounded by adoring citizens.