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The Undoing of Death: Sermons for Holy Week and Easter is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Crucifixion and Resurrection of Jesus comprise the two-part event at the heart of the Christian story. Because of its unique meaning and the intense emotions it invokes, Holy Week brings high expectations on the part of congregations and places unusual demands on those who deliver the messages. It takes a specially gifted preacher to communicate the profundity of Christ’s Passion and its...

obviously expected me to congratulate her. Unfortunately, she had missed the whole point. She saw herself as one of the virtuous, above the common herd. She meant well, but she did not understand Jesus’ saying, “I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners.” When Jesus came into Jerusalem riding on that donkey, he was received with something like the sort of acclaim that celebrities receive today. Jesus was mobbed, so to speak. His head, however, was not turned. He seems to have known exactly
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