Palm Sunday
April 13, 2025
Sources of Information for Today's Online Service
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Topics for Today
Wikipedia is a frequent
source
for information in these articles.
Holy Week
Holy Week
What is Palm
Sunday?
from GotQuestions.org
Palm Sunday
Maundy Thursday
The Passover Seder
The Last Supper
The Last Supper
(Painting)
Good Friday
Stations of the Cross
Scriptural Way of the Cross
Crucifixion of Jesus
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Bethel Worship Planning Documents
2025 Monthly Worship
Calendar
2025 RCL 2 page Summary
2025 Bethel Weekly Worship Planning
worksheet
2024 Bethel Weekly Worship Planning
worksheet
2025 Annual Program Planning
worksheet
Guidance from UMC Discipleship Ministries
Weekly Worship Planning Series
Note: This material from UDM is not the basis for today's message
but is provided here for your personal study and reflection.
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how to use this material.
Worship Series: "Steadfast Love: A Lenten Playlist"
from umcdiscipleship.org
A playlist? For the season of Lent? A Lenten playlist? What an odd idea. Lent is often seen as a somber and even silent season. Certainly, there is space for contemplation, for embracing the quiet, for being still to seek out God. Many of us, however, find music a helpful tool for contemplation. So, we offer this playlist as another tool for your worship experience this season. We chose a song for each worship moment in the series from Ash Wednesday through Easter Sunday. We aren’t suggesting that these are to be used in worship, unless that fits your context. Rather, this is preparation work, thinking about making connections, about plumbing the depths of heart and soul, of the community of faith and the wider culture. However you use them, let music be a guide into worship this Lent.
This is the Seventh service of a 10 service Worship Series from the Discipleship Ministries.
The graphics at the top of this page list topics for other services of the Series.
(Click on another graphic to see that session's resource page)
This Service's Theme: "Open the Gates"
Liturgical Resources
This day is surely the most paradoxical of any on the liturgical calendar. Is that a controversial statement? Perhaps, but it seems true.
Worship Planning Notes
Preaching Notes
Lectionary Scriptures:
Isaiah 50:4-9a;
Psalm 118:1-2,19-29;
Psalm 31:9-16;
Luke 19:28-40;
Suggested Hymns .
Music Notes .
DM Accompaniments
Sources of Music for the following hymns are:
- UMH CD.....UDM - DM Accompaniment.....
MM/DD/YY - Recorded Service
Hymns Selected For this service:
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"Hosanna, Loud Hosanna"
279 -
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"Filled With Excitement (Mantos y Palms)"
280 -
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"All Glory, Laud,and Honor"
559 -
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"Christ is Made the Sure Foundation"
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"Precious Lord, Take My Hand"
512 -
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"Stand By Me" (UDM)
2091 -
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"The King of Glory Comes"