Guelph Vineyard Church

Palm Sunday marks the day that Jesus enters Jerusalem with singular focus: He has come to die. It's also the beginning of the death of the faith of Jesus disciples. Don't get me wrong, judging from outer appearances they enter the Holy city riding high. It's a party. Throngs of people are marshalling around Jesus. This is just the sort of the thing that the disciples have been waiting for. Jesus is about to overthrow their oppressors, they imagine. Enter Jesus, king of Israel, desolator of the Romans. Perhaps they began to fancy themselves as Jesus' version of king David's mighty men. They begin to feel that their hopes and dreams about Jesus are finally starting to materialize. Little do they know how wrong (and how RIGHT) they are.Throughout the course of the next week, the plot begins to shift. Jesus starts to get even "weirder" than usual.  He tells them to procure a donkey (a symbol of peace) rather than a horse (a symbol of war) for his entry. Jesus becomes downright a