On Easter Sunday, our scripture lesson is the resurrection story from Luke, who reported that when the women who went to the tomb ran back to tell the disciples that Jesus was risen, their story was received as merely “an idle tale.” Some things never change.
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On Palm Sunday, we descended the Mount of Olives with the joyful procession leading Jesus into Jerusalem. Just four days later, we find Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane, which lies at the base of the Mount of Olives, sweating blood in prayer. How did we get here?
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If you climb a mountain, you also have to descend a mountain. On Palm Sunday Jesus embodies that descent, both literally and figuratively, as he descends the Mount of Olives on a donkey to the gates of Jerusalem, thronged by his followers. Then on Maundy Thursday, we meet Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane, at the base of the Mount of Olives before he ascends the hill called Mt. Calvary, bearing a heavy cross.
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When someone joins the military, their first real assignment is to make it through the rigors of boot camp. The difficult and harsh conditions there are meant to prepare soldiers for the much harsher and more stressful time of real conflict and war. Immediately following Jesus’ baptism, the Gospel writers tell us that Jesus was put through his own boot camp out in the Judean wilderness with none other than Satan as his drill sergeant. There in the mountainous wild, Satan tries to get Jesus to abandon the kind of ministry God has called him to do. Listen and learn about what tempted Jesus and why, and how all of that mirrors our own lives and world.
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