This week’s column is written by my pastor, Dr. Chad Chaddick, pastor of First Baptist Church.
This week was Holy Week — a week that celebrates and remembers Jesus in his final days leading up to the cross. Palm Sunday was the first day of that week that celebrates and remembers God’s great salvation — first in the Exodus story at Passover and then in the beginning of the new covenant relationship made possible by Jesus.
So, Palm Sunday is a beginning and a day of preparation. It was the day the lambs were brought into Jerusalem in preparation for the Passover. Interestingly, most of them would have come from the regions of Bethlehem, raised by shepherds, some of whom probably told curious stories to one another about angelic visitations and a child in a manager. And this was the day that Jesus, the Lamb of God, born in Bethlehem, came into Jerusalem.
