Palm Sunday 2026 at Sunshine Cathedral MCC, Fort Lauderdale, FL    Isaiah 50.7-9; Psalm 118.19-26; Matthew 21.1-11   Welcome to the Streets: How Did We Get Here? (A Homiletical Exposition of Jesus and that Ass) How did we get here? Matthew begins with a genealogy but does not tell us: Sarah [who abused Hagar and...... Read More

  Jesus said, “My soul is deeply grieved, to the point of death; you all stay here, and stay awake… Mark 14:34 Let us pray: Holy One of Old, open our eyes. Amen. Could you not stay awake one hour?” Mark 14:37   Could you not stay woke? Billie Holiday was designated the most dangerous...... Read More

Walking the Way: What is this strange thing that we do, walking around our churches and neighborhoods, waving palms from trees that are not native to where we are waiving them (for most of us), accompanied by choirs, the rare few with young acolytes on the backs of donkeys? Is it a living gospel? Is...... Read More

  (The overlaid sermon title was from someone who did not check with me and may not have actually listened to the sermon.) In the Liturgy of the Palms we read: Matthew 21:5 “Tell the daughter of Zion, ‘Look, your sovereign is coming to you, humble, and mounted on a donkey…’” In Isaiah 45, an...... Read More