The Story That Forms Us

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We live in a world of competing stories — and competing meanings attached to those stories. The logo at the end of a story shapes everything: what we believe it’s about, who we become because of it, and what we do as a result. So what happens when the story of Jesus gets the wrong logo attached to it? In this Palm Sunday message, Pastor T. C. walks through Luke 19 and the clashing perspectives present at Jesus’s entry into Jerusalem: the crowds who wanted a warlord, the Pharisees who feared the explosion of a social powder keg, and Jesus himself, weeping over a city that didn’t recognize the things that make for peace. Against the backdrop of voices today that are actively reshaping the meaning of Jesus’s story, this sermon invites us to pay careful attention to the story we’re actually inhabiting. Holy Week, it turns out, is the meaning. Follow Jesus through Palm Sunday’s prophetic procession, the temple protest, the upper room, the garden, the cross, and the empty tomb—and you’ll find a story that forms us into people of peace, protest, presence, prayer, passion, and promise. Not a story of domination. A story of self-giving love.

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