Palm Sunday First Person Sermon (continued)

In the month of October, I am sharing a first person dramatic sermon which I wrote for a Palm Sunday service. Last month you will remember, we shared and discussed using exegesis in a sermon.

This month I would like your reactions to using a first person sermon. I would dress up to act the part and find someone in the congregation to be the stranger, the inn keeper and finally the narrator at the end of the sermon.

Palm Sunday

Luke 19: 28-40

Luke 22:14-23:56

The Street Sweeper

Push, push, push, bend, bend, bend, that 's all I do all day. Push the stuff into a pile, then bend over and pick it up and throw it into the basket. Then haul the basket to the dump and start all over again.

Push, push, push, bend, bend, bend, haul, haul, haul. Hey what's all the commotion up their at the temple. Hey, it's that Jesus fellow again. Wasn't it bad enough He made trouble yesterday and gave me this mess to clean up, but He's at it again.

Hey, you, what's goin' on? I can't hear you with all the noise, speak up man. What, Jesus just turned over a bunch of tables in the Temple. He is driving out the money changers, and He is calling the Temple His Father's house. He says: "the Temple shall be a house of prayer, but you make it a house of thieves."

His Father's house?? I suppose when I am done here, I'm goin'na have to go in there and clean it up too. But one good thing. There are places in there I can't go. Them Temple people are going to have to clean that up!!

Wait just one doggone minute!! Jesus said the Temple is his Father's house!! But the Temple is God's. Is God Jesus' father. No it can't be.

Push, push, push, bend, bend, bend, haul, haul, haul. The Temple Jesus' Father's house. Jesus the son of God. I remember something about that awhile back, maybe 30 some years ago. My cousin up at Nazareth told me a story he heard from an inn keeper up there. He said a couple came to the inn when everyone was forced to go to their own town to be enrolled. Boy, we had a mess here, too, that time. So many people no place to put them. There was no place for them in the

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