April 5, 2020
[Editor’s note: We thank Interim Pastor David Mueller and John Lasher, director of music and worship arts, for recording this Palm Sunday message during this time of Coronavirus pandemic, when we cannot meet together. You can read the text, download the hymn sheet music and hear the audio by clicking on “read more” below.] “I have believed for a long time that a most significant scene in this Passion Drama is Jesus standing before Pilate. Freeze frame this image for a minute or two. Just stare at it: A Representative dignitary of the then most powerful Empire on the planet, sent to Palestine precisely because he was so good at dealing with crises, and The Son of God sent to this world precisely because God so loved the world, facing each other. Stare some more at both men, one having at his hand the power of empire; the other whose power was made perfect in weakness.”