Holy Monday

Lee Davis • April 14, 2025

A Disruptive Love

“Jesus entered the temple and began to drive out those who were selling things there…” – Luke 19:45 (NRSV)


On Holy Monday, we remember Jesus entering the temple and turning over the tables of the money changers. It is a jarring image—Jesus, the Prince of Peace, taking bold and disruptive action.


This moment is not about anger for anger’s sake. It is about love—God’s fierce love for justice, for truth, and for people who are being exploited in holy spaces. Jesus wasn’t just flipping tables; he was flipping the expectations of what religion should look like. He was clearing space so that the temple might once again become a house of prayer for all people.


Holy Monday reminds us that sometimes love disrupts. Sometimes love says, “This is not okay.” Sometimes love speaks truth to power, even when it’s costly. As we journey through this week, we are invited to examine our own lives and the institutions we’re part of. Are there tables in our hearts that need overturning? Are there practices in our churches or communities that keep others from drawing near to God?


Let us walk with Christ into Holy Week not just as observers, but as participants—willing to be changed, willing to be challenged, willing to be made new.

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Go Into All the World

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Crowned with Glory

By Lee Davis • April 24, 2025
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Were Not Our Hearts Burning Within Us?

By Lee Davis • April 23, 2025
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Called By Name

By Lee Davis • April 22, 2025
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Do not be Afraid

By Lee Davis • April 21, 2025
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From Darkness to Light

By Lee Davis • April 19, 2025
The Great Vigil of Easter, which brings Holy Saturday to a close, is the Church’s most ancient and dramatic liturgy—moving us from darkness to light, death to resurrection. Through fire, story, water, and feast, we proclaim with joy: Christ is risen, Alleluia!
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Good Friday

By Lee Davis • April 18, 2025
On Good Friday, the Church enters a solemn stillness, rich with symbolism—the bare altar, the veneration of the cross, and the silence all speak to the depth of Christ’s suffering and love. Though we stand at the foot of the cross in grief, we do so with hope, knowing the story is not over.
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Eastertide Music Series

By Andrew Butler • April 17, 2025
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Holy Thursday

By Lee Davis • April 17, 2025
Holy Thursday invites us to remember the night Jesus knelt to wash feet, broke bread with friends, and gave a new commandment: to love one another as He has loved us. In the face of betrayal and suffering, Jesus chose radical, self-giving love—and calls us to do the same.
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Holy "Spy" Wednesday

By Lee Davis • April 16, 2025
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