Preaching Mark in Lectionary Year B: Episode 3 - Preaching the Passion

Palm Sunday is a very complex liturgy. Every year, it seems that someone in the congregation comes up and tells me that the liturgy feels like whiplash – one minute you’re out in the park waving palms in the spring air, and the next minute you’re in the middle of the terror of Jesus’s arrest, betrayal, abandonment, mocking, torture, death. How does anyone preach in the midst of that kind of a liturgy?