Narrative.  If you look at the way people understand life, it all goes back to the interpretation of narrative.  When I think of the most memorable speeches, sermons, books, etc. that I have experienced, the common link is that there were high impact narrative stories behind them. 

Liturgically the church has employed narrative in the church year.  Advent, Epiphany, Lent, Easter, Pentecost, and then all over again… the church is living the narrative of Jesus year in and year out.  I tend to gravitate toward the experience of walking through the life of Jesus.  Born to live. Born to die.  Born to live again.  It is what Paul calls the ‘message of the cross’.  A beautiful, living story.

The church has traditionally referred to this week as Holy Week or Passion Week.  For the next few days, I invite you to walk through this experience with me.  I have done some research and will be connecting this week’s events in Jesus’ life with some prophecies and with some first century historical meaning, and we will trek with scripture through the most anticipated and written about event in history.

See you tomorrow for Palm Sunday!