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Table of Contents TRIUMPHAL ENTRY// 3.25.18 CLEANSING THE TEMPLE // 3.26.18 TEACHING IN THE TEMPLE // 3.27.18 JUDAS BETRAYS JESUS // 3.28.18 LAST SUPPER /GARDEN // 3.29.18 CRUCIFIXION // 3.30.18 THE DARK IN-BETWEEN // 3.31.18
Preface: How to Make the Most of This Week devotional you’re holding includes relatively brief readings for each day of the eight days of Holy The from Palm Sunday to Easter. In one sense, there’s nothing intrinsically holy about this Sunday to Week, that shows up on the calendar each year. But, in another sense, it is a sobering and beautiful time Sunday ponder the final week in the life of Jesus and consider how we will live our lives in light of Jesus’ life. to Holy Week is not an obligation, but rather an opportunity. It is a chance to walk with the “Big Celebrating church, throughout time and through the world, as she walks with her Bridegroom through the most C” week in the history of the world. It is a chance to focus our minds on, and seek to intensify our important for, the most important and timeless realities. In the chaos of our increasingly fast-paced and affections society, Holy Week is a reminder to pause and ponder, to carefully mark each day and not let the hectic of all weeks fly by us like every other. greatest help make the most of this week, we have asked a few leaders in our church to write a short devotional To each day [excluding Easter Sunday, when we will gather together as a church to celebrate the for of Jesus together]. You’ll notice that each devotional centers on a particular psalm. If you are resurrection familiar with the psalms, they are the worship book of the Bible. They model and instruct how to bring not of life to God as worship. As a rabbi and a faith-filled Jew, Jesus would have memorized all 150 psalms. all see evidence of this by the number of times he quotes or alludes to the psalms, including a few of the We words he uttered on the cross dying for our sins (Matthew 27:46, quoting Psalm 22:1). final encourage you to slow down and savor these devotionals. Meditate on the truths they introduce. We block out several minutes. Find a comfortable place to sit. Quiet your soul, and pray that God Perhaps meet you in their words. Consider spending a few moments in prayer after you read and turn these would truths Godward in adoration of Christ. *Adapted from Desiring God Ministries.
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