Holy Week Year B (Roundtable-2015)

Palm Sunday

Twitter interaction:
- @GoodWill605: “More and more I move towards Passion, but would like to have a processional then a sermon on the passion”
- @revRenfro: “I love what Borg and Crossan talk about: two parades on Palm Sunday and important to separate the palms from the passion”
- @ReverendJET
On Facebook:
- Sharon Stowe Cook: As a pastor: Palm Sunday. As a worshipper (cuz now I'm in extension ministry), Palm Sunday. Actually, as a pew sitter, I get a little ticked if it's Passion Sunday. It's like a spoiler. Ruins the dramatic build up of the week.
- Mark Allio:I go back and forth on this. I would like to have Palm Sunday but I know that only 5% of the congregation will come to Maundy Thursday and Good Friday services. So coming to Palm Sunday and then straight to Easter falls short. I believe that our focus is on resurrection and new life but you can't have resurrection without the cross. So we usually start with Palms and move through Passion with hymns and scripture readings. But sometimes we just stick with Palms because we have seen the Passion in the least of these and know that when we suffer, Jesus suffers with us.
- Amanda and Todd: “Palms”
Kids parade?
Palms- useful or a waste?
The curious case of “Hosanna” with Palms and Psalm 118 (Richard)
Psalm 31 with the Passion (Richard)

? - important for context?
The Woman with the Jar in the Passion (Mark 14.3-9) (Richard) (I just preached on that last Sunday! -Chris (https://jesuslovesdinos.wordpress.com/2015/02/25/precious-moments/)