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Palm Sunday
Collect: Be known within our life today, O God who travels with us. Open
our hearts to receive you. Open our lips to sing your praises. Open our souls
to the depths of your love for us and for all people. For this is the day when
we remember your entry into the city, into the city of those who have gone
before us. Be with us as you were with them, O God, Amen.


From the desk of the minister: The journey towards the Cross
As we celebrate the Palm Sunday today, we are reminded of the very first Palm
Sunday 2000 years ago. Jesus rode the donkey into the city. Many people spread
their cloaks on the road, while others spread branches they cut in the fields.
Those who went ahead and those who followed shouted –“Hosanna!” “Blessed
is he who comes in the name of the Lord!” “Blessed is the coming kingdom
of our father David!” “Hosanna in the highest heaven!”


They cheered Jesus as the One who will liberates them from their bondage to the
Romans. They don’t know that Jesus was on a different agenda.
Jesus came to liberate us from our sins.
Throughout his whole ministry, all through those fateful events that marked the
last few days of His ministry, one fact stands out supremely.
Love outshines evil.
Jesus has the necessary courage and patience to stay the course. Only then he
gives the cry, “It is finished.” “I have done what I came to do,” and his Spirit
breathes its last. It is a tragic, yet beautiful dying moment.


No unfinished business. Love completed. Life’s purpose fulfilled.
As we continue our journey towards the cross, we are reminded that Jesus was
not killed by the Romans nor the Jewish or any evil set up by anyone? The Love
of God is so huge for our sinful nature. He came deliberately to die on the cross
so that we can be forgiven and have new beginnings. Let today, Palm Sunday, be
the beginning of another journey towards the cross. To see the amazing power of
Love displayed to all his followers.

The greatest victory of all is the victory of
Jesus from death. Let us focus today what the cross can offer to us so that
the resurrection can be ours forever and ever. Grace & Peace, Rev Maile


A teacher attempts to educate in a particular way, teaching a truth as the teacher understands it. A disciple’s single, overriding purpose is to emulate his teacher. If we listen to Jesus’ teachings, the absolute best we can do for ourselves is to be Christlike, disciples of Jesus. In the reading in Matthew 10:26-31 today, Jesus is explaining one of the passages of Our Good News Bible;

Whom To Fear

Through our Christian understanding there is no one to fear (but God). Should we fear the unknown? The unknown does not exist until there is a sense of realisation of its existence. We should have no fear of the dark for when the light comes on, we see the table, the chairs in our room just as when the light went off.

The most amazing discovery when Jesus found us and came into

our lives is that we don’t have to be afraid anymore, that Jesus gives us a power that overcomes fear. Many people have attested to this one feature of their transformation into a Christian life.

We don’t have to be afraid!

Say a small prayer to yourself at times of these stresses;

JESUS CHRIST IS MY LORD AND SAVIOUR, AMEN

This actually works, as the true Spirit of Jesus arrives and overcomes fear, the warmth of this love washes over us as we are contending with our own demons.

JESUS CHRIST IS MY LORD AND SAVIOUR, AMEN

All the unbelieving spirits that may abound are cast off through the love and power of the name of Jesus.

We don’t have to be afraid;

JESUS CHRIST IS MY LORD AND SAVIOUR, AMEN