Bethel Palm Sunday Service

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Worship Series: "Depths of Love"
from UMC DM Worship Planning
The Season of Lent is a time of self-reflection, of spiritual examination. While that is a healthy and necessary exercise, we don't examine ourselves in isolation. Instead, we are invited to lay our lives alongside the life of Jesus. It is a sobering exercise to say the least. And yet, what we discover in this examination of his life and ours, is not condemnation or recrimination. Instead, we are overwhelmed, the farther we go on this journey with him, by the depths of love he has for all of us. Lent is a time for getting our spiritual house in order, that is true. But above all, it is an invitation to once again commit to love like Christ loves.

This is the Seventh service of a 9 service Worship Series from the Discipleship Ministries.
(The first was for Ash Wednesday)
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This Service's Theme: "Blessed is the One"
As we return to Mark for Palm/Passion Sunday, it is striking that even Mark has slowed down the action a bit, filling in details about Jesus' instructions to the disciples and the response of the bystanders who questioned them when they went to find the colt for Jesus to ride.
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