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| Palm Sunday crosses from OTR's childhood |
Jesus surprises us. He is a liberator, but his way of freeing us is often not dramatic. He comes to us with simple, quiet promises, using the water of baptism and the bread and wine of the Lord’s Supper to assure of those promises. He is gentle and patient, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to believe in him for their salvation. He frees us from the guilt of our sins, and strengthens us to bear our daily burdens.
There are but ten more sentences in this moving statement about Palm Sunday taken from the Internet archives of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod. Read the complete statement here.
N.B. The Bible served my grandparents and parents well. It's too fragile for use these days, but still holds seventy years of memorabilia, including a dozen or so Palm Sunday crosses from my childhood.
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