Sermon, Palm Sunday 2026

Most of us learned confession wrong. We learned it as a transaction — you sin, you confess, you feel bad, you're forgiven, you try harder. The point was the guilt.

Morning Prayer, Evening Prayer, the ancient rhythm of praying the hours — was designed from the beginning to be carried into ordinary life.

Something happens on Palm Sunday that happens on no other day in the Christian year. We hold the parade and the death in the same hour, in the same hands.

A candle lit in a dark room is not just a light source. It is a statement — and the church has been making it for two thousand years.

We tend to preach the raising of Lazarus as a story about what Jesus can do. The miracle is real and it matters. But what do you do in the four days before it.

A look at the story of the blind beggar in the Gospel of John. It's after the miracle that things get interesting. The authorities needed to keep him where he was.

Somewhere along the way, we confused Sabbath with a nap. We look at what Sabbath truly is, the orginal protest and how it points towards trust in God.

The religious establishment of first-century Jerusalem was not threatened by a blind man sitting by the road. They were fine with him there. Begging - in his place

The Incarnation didn't end at the resurrection. It opened something. The Spirit is poured out. The Body of Christ is still in the world.