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Following the Crowd on Palm Sunday

Celebrating Palm Sunday is a wonderful part of Holy Week, but we have to stop and consider something when we talk about Palm Sunday, and that’s the fact that you don’t actually want to be like the people who were bowing with palms on Palm Sunday.

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"Blessed Are the Dead"

Hushed murmurs were the order of the pre-ceremony conversation with farmers and teachers and salt-of-the-earth Americans from rural Kansas struggling for words of casual civility in the midst of such somber proceedings.  Reverend Zachariah had called them all in that evening with the once-dormant church bells, and those who remained knew why they were coming together.

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