Theological Thoughts

Tomorrow is Palm Sunday. This starts the week in the church year that we call Holy Week. We start out with remembering Jesus triumphal entry into Jerusalem when the people waved palms and shouted "Hosanna!" which means "save us." Then we have Maundy Thursday where we remember the institution of the Lord's Supper. Good Friday is an extremely solemn remembrance of Christ's death, and we finally get to Easter! Christ is risen, indeed! Here are a few suggestions for Holy Week.

Easter will get Here Soon Enough I wrote briefly about this on Facebook, but I’d figure for this first blog post, I would make a longer post about the topic. In the Lutheran Church we, like the Roman Catholics, the Anglicans, and other like church bodies, use what we call the church calendar. This Calendar helps frame our life around the faith and the birth, life, death, resurrection, and teachings of our Lord Jesus Christ. The year is broken into seasons that cause us to re