Something To Believe In
Rev. Paul Rasmussen
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On Palm Sunday, we celebrate the moment Jesus rode triumphantly into Jerusalem as the people cheered wildly with the expectation that he was their Messiah. What had he done to receive such adulation? Why would they believe that he was the one?
Just days before, Jesus had done an extraordinary miracle: raising a man from the dead. It was a sign that gave people something to believe in. But before the miracle, Jesus did something just as important. He stepped into the heartbreak of grief and death with his dear friends and faced the painful question many of us still ask: If God can fix my problem, where is He? In this sermon, we reflect on the encounters that Mary and Martha have with Jesus just after their brother Lazarus has died, and we wrestle with what our own faith looks like when everything else falls apart.