Jesus Comes to Jerusalem as King (John 12:12-19) 12 The next day the great crowd that had come for the festival heard that Jesus was on his way to Jerusalem. 13 They took palm branches and went out to meet him, shouting, “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Blessed is the king of Israel!” 14 Jesus found a young donkey and sat on it, as it is written: 15 “Do not be afraid, Daughter Zion;    see, your king is coming,    seated on a donkey’s colt.” 16 At first his disciples...

From “Our World Belongs to God:” 23. Remembering the promise to reconcile the world to himself, God joined our humanity in Jesus Christ— the eternal Word made flesh. He is the long-awaited Messiah, one with us and one with God, fully human and fully divine, conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary. The ONLY ONE,            who emptied Himself like this: Philippians 2:6-7 “For though he was in the form (the very nature) of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be...

If you were to summarize the whole Old Testament with just 4 people/4 stories in addition to Adam and Eve, what would they be? In these weeks leading up to Easter, we've been using "Our World Belongs to God: A Contemporary Testamony" as a framework for what leads up to Easter's great celebration. Two weeks ago we started with Creation.   8. In the beginning, God—Father, Word, and Spirit— called this world into being out of nothing, and gave it shape and order... and everything was very good....