Emphasis Preaching Journal
Passionate about the passion
Commentary
I suspect that most preachers will not be looking for ways to dive headlong into
lifting up the passion as the centerpiece of their homiletical offering for this Sunday. No
doubt there are good reasons to avoid wandering off the usual beaten path of the Palm
Sunday parade: the palms, on order for a year, beckon to be taken home and folded into
family Bibles as bookmarks; the children wait to have the promise fulfilled that they will
be able to act up a bit in the parade of palms with a passion that is not usually permitted;
and the choir has practiced for months.
