The Fenimore Road United Methodist Church Mixed Choir sings “Experience on King Jesus.”
Photograph by Nelson A. King
Congregants at Fenimore Road United Methodist Church (FSUMC) in Brooklyn had been absolutely immersed in celebrating Palm Sunday on April 13, 2025, singing, waving, and marching with palms in the course of the two-plus-hour-long Worship Service.
As anticipated, prayers had been supplied, Scriptures learn and a sermon delivered in the course of the celebration of Palm Sunday, additionally known as Ardour Sunday.
“We all know that the palms characterize the victory gained for us on the cross at Calvary, however Luke’s narrative provides a component designed for each disciple of Jesus Christ to stay by,” preached the church’s pastor, the Rev. Roger Jackson, in his sermon primarily based on Luke 19: 28-40. “After we are obedient to the phrase of the Lord, we’re supporting and selling the reason for Christ.
“Whereas we aren’t privileged to know the names of the lads whom God used within the textual content, what we do know is that the entire crowd of disciples started shouting with loud voices: ‘Blessed is the king who comes within the title of the Lord! Peace in heaven and glory within the highest!’” he added.
Pastor Jackson stated the palms on Sunday had been “indicators, markers, if you’ll, of our religion for all to see that, once we are obedient to the phrase of God, a synergistic stream of the favor of God propels His plan ahead, the place the reign and rule of the Lord turns into a lived actuality for all.
“The palms and at the present time are declarations to the world that we assist and promote the reason for Christ due to the miraculous issues that we now have witnessed in each the lives of others and our personal,” he stated. “For it’s nothing in need of a miracle that a few of us have misplaced family members, and but, we’re nonetheless capable of declare that God is nice!
“It’s nothing in need of a miracle to have the nice sense to know that God continues to be good, even when dangerous issues have and are taking place within the lives of members of our households and family members,” Rev. Jackson added. “It’s nothing in need of a miracle to witness and, for a few of us, to have skilled God’s energy to revive us to good well being.
“We’ve loads of good causes to rejoice with the lifting and waving of the palm, however we now have no higher purpose than being among the many crowd of post-resurrected disciples of Jesus Christ who’re dwelling in obedience to the phrase of God, for Jesus has declared and decreed ‘that heaven and earth might cross away, however my phrases shall stay eternally,’” he continued.
“Folks of God, we now have to organize for the surprising motion of God as a result of we aren’t going to at all times know what God is as much as,” Pastor Jackson stated. “Might these palms remind us all to count on the surprising motion of God in order that we stay our lives as a ready group of religion trying to be remodeled by a God whose ideas should not our ideas and whose methods should not our methods.”
In the course of the Worship Service, the Mixed Choir sang “Experience on King Jesus,” Sis. Patricia Senhouse rendered “The Holy Metropolis,” and the Sunday Faculty kids and younger adults marched and waved palm branches to Kirk Franklin’s “Hosanna,” with the congregation becoming a member of in.
