April 11, 2025
We are coming to the end of the most important part of the Christian year. This Sunday is Palm Sunday, the event commemorating Christ’s triumphal entry into Jerusalem on a donkey on a bed of palm tree leaves. It is essentially the first day of Holy Week, which will culminate with Easter Sunday and his resurrection from his execution on Good Friday the following Friday, April 18.
If there is nothing else to know about Christianity, you must know the importance of his death and resurrection. Sure, his birth on Christmas Day is important. So too is Jesus’s miracles and his fast in the wilderness. But the entire religion is worthless if you do not understand that he died for our sins and he was resurrected for our life.
If there is anything you must know is that he died for us. Nothing else means more than this.
So this Sunday while you see the palms spread about your local Church, be mindful that it marks the start of what Jesus came here to do for us. God didn’t have to send his only son to die for our sins. But he did. To that we must give him praise.