Good evening on this Friday, March 30th. I am writing my blog on Friday evening instead of Saturday morning this week because I have such a busy schedule tomorrow. Sunday is Palm Sunday and with it begins Holy Week on the Christian calendar. After Jesus entered the city of Jerusalem on a donkey, the recipient of recognition and adulation to cries of Hosanna, Hosanna, He began the road to Calvary.  He now prepared them for His death, celebrated the Passover with His disciples and instituted the Lord's Supper out of the Passover Feast. Then He took some of His disciples with Him to the Garden of Gethsemane where He prayed and waited for Judas to betray Him.

After His arrest He was tried before the Jews for blasphemy, then the Romans for treason whereupon He was sentenced to death. He endured the crown of thorns, being stripped of His clothing, a mock septre placed in His hand, being jeered as the Son of God, being spit upon, hit in the head with a stick, being scourged with the Cat of Nine Tails whip, carrying the cross, and ultimately being crucified as they nailed His hands and feet to the implement of torture. After dying on the cross, they thrust a spear into his side to ensure His death, removed his body from the cross and buried Him in a borrowed tomb. There He lay for three days until His resurrection on that first Easter morning. These are the events of the final week of His life.

He endured all this and more for us as our suffering substitute. "Greater love has no man than this than a man lay down His life for His friends," says John 15:13. That is what Holy week is all about. May we celebrate it with love and appreciation for ALL He did for us.
Hallelujah what a Savior!

Sunday we'll celebrate Palm Sunday together. I'll hope to see you there.
Mel Brown