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Palm Sunday – Not a throwaway line

There’s this one verse at the end of the story of the Triumphal Entry in Mark 11 - that seems like it might be a throw away line. Honestly, I’ve probably read the story tens of times, and I can’t remember thinking anything of it, in any of the times I have. Maybe it’s because it seems inconsequential, or maybe it’s because the story feels over already; but in any case, like all of scripture, it’s probably there for a…

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Come, follow me

Jesus was an interesting dude. He was in fact; God in human form, sent here to show us a walking, talking example of what God is like. And yet, he didn’t do the things that you would expect God to do. Most people would expect a holy, righteous and perfect God to want to hang out with people who had their acts together. Yet Jesus spent the majority of his time hanging out with sinners and outcasts. It would be…