resurrection. don t weep. there will be a resolute, for his grace will protect you. when it comes to the details of mary s life, the bible says very little. the new testament mentions her just 12 times. mary magdalene is remarkable. there are so few mentions of her in the gospels, but they re so central to the story of jesus, and they filled our imagination for centuries. in reality, many of our ideas about mary are no more than myth. perhaps the most enduring one is that she is a fallen woman, a prostitute saved by jesus from a life of sin. she s very often seen as an extremely is extremely seductive ee rot cli charged woman. it is hard to separate legend from fact in the story of her life.
perhaps somebody wrote that for president trump. that s wonderful. it s absolutely true. i think it walls a way of making something very sacred. clayton: father, you brought the palms this morning. yes. clayton: on palm sunday. what s your message on this palm sunday and what should would he be thinking about. be abby and i were talking at it during the break. remember the story of jesus going into jerusalem. we are entering the holiest week on the christian calendar jesus chose to get on a donkey. people saw him coming in and they said hail, hail, hosanna in the highest. they took palm branches like this and laid it down before this donkey. this is a king coming in who should have been on a warrior horse, logically. instead he chose a donkey in order to let the people know that he was coming for a different type of kingdom. he was coming to free us from sin.
this was a way of getting in closer to really understanding the bible and to really entering into the story of jesus. there was something about knowing that he actually walked here, that he talked here, where she s standing. you realize that this is not just a myth. jerusalem is not a made-up city. jesus is not a made-up person. it s an incredibly powerful experience.
resurrection. do not weep nor grieve nor be irresolute. for his grace will protect you. yet when it comes to the details of mary s life, the bible says very little. the new testament mentions her just 12 times. mary magdalene is remarkable. there s so few mentions of her in the gospels, but they re so central to the story of jesus. and they ve filled our imagination for centuries. in reality, many of our ideas about mary are no more than myth. perhaps the most enduring one is that she is a fallen woman, a prostitute saved by jesus from a life of sin. she s very often seen as an extremely seductive, erotic erotically charged woman. 2,000 years on, it has become hard to separate legend from fact in the story of her life. who was mary really?
yet when it comes to the details of mary s life, the bible says very little. the new testament mentions her just 12 times. mary magdalene is remarkable. there s so few mentions of her in the gospels, but they re so central to the story of jesus. and they ve filled our imagination for centuries. in reality, many of our ideas about mary are no more than myth. perhaps the most enduring one is that she is a fallen woman, a prostitute saved by jesus from a life of sin. she s very often seen as an extremely seductive, erotic erotically charged woman. 2,000 years on, it has become hard to separate legend from fact in the story of her life. who was mary really? where do these myths come from?