Palm Sunday

Palm Sunday

I never really understood the Palm Sunday liturgy. We spend the first five minutes singing, “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!!” and then head straight into fifteen minutes of the Passion and death of Jesus. As a result, I figured that the Palm Sunday part of it was pretty […]

“Go to Galilee”

“Go to Galilee”

“Go tell my brothers to go to Galilee, and there they will see me”  ~ Matthew 28:10 These are among the first words that Jesus says after the Resurrection. “Go to Galilee.”  WHY? Galilee is green and lush, full of hillsides covered with orchards, goats, wildflowers, and paths leading up the surrounding mountains. Jerusalem is […]

The Most Important Seven Words in Scripture

The Most Important Seven Words in Scripture

בְּרֵאשִׁ֖ית בָּרָ֣א אֱלֹהִ֑ים אֵ֥ת הַשָּׁמַ֖יִם וְאֵ֥ת הָאָֽרֶץ: Beresheet bara elohim ayth hashamayim ayth haaretzIn the beginning, God himself created the heavens and the earth.  These could be the most important words in all of Scripture. Why, you ask? Because everything else depends on them. If you do not believe that God himself created the heavens […]