Palm Sunday can be tricky to put together. Good Friday tends to be an easier service. So what happens when you add them together and call today Palm/Passion Sunday? Easier? Harder? Neither, really, just different. The move to Palm Sunday being combined with Good Friday came about when it became obvious that Good Friday service…
Water. It is one of the critical things for survival. We can live for about three days without water. We have to have it. Most civilizations arose around water – lakes, rivers, oceans – because if you have water, you can get the other things you need to live. Agriculture is impossible without water; water…
There are quite a few intriguing characters in the Bible. Most of them are intriguing because we know so little about them. One of them is one of the two principle characters in our Gospel reading, Nicodemus. Who was Nicodemus? We know he was a Pharisee and we know he was on the Jewish council…