This Book: Palms and Psalms (Psalm 118 v22-26)
To see the full message, scroll to the bottom and click through. Every community has their songs. Every community has their songbook . F or the people present in Jerusalem on the day that we remember as P alm S unday, their songbook —the songs they would be able to sing at the drop of a hat — w ere the Psalm s : 150 songs , poems , and prayers gathered and preserved for us by the curators of the O ld T estament writings. In particular, f or the people of Jerusalem in Jesus ' day, Psalm s 113 through 118 : a cluster of songs that they knew as the H allel , and that were sung together every year at every Passover feast, at every table, in every home in Israel , as they shared the meal that commemorated their deliverance from slavery in E gypt . And t here...