The King Is Coming!

Happy Palm Sunday, everyone!  We had planned to announce the Wesley Award winner for Best Old Testament Miracle today, but other events intervened ... A donkey named Dolly came to our church today to help us celebrate Palm Sunday.  Here's some video from her special visit:

If you haven't read the Palm Sunday story lately, you can find it at Mark 11:1-11.  Here's the text, illustrated with photos of Dolly the Donkey:

¹ As they approached Jerusalem, near the towns of Bethphage and Bethany, they came to the Mount of Olives. Jesus sent two of his disciples on ahead ²with these instructions:
Go to the village there ahead of you. As soon as you get there, you will find a colt tied up that has never been ridden. Untie it and bring it here. ³And if someone asks you why you are doing that, say that the Master needs it and will send it back at once.

⁴ So they went and found a colt out in the street, tied to the door of a house. As they were untying it, ⁵some of the bystanders asked them,
What are you doing, untying that colt?

⁶They answered just as Jesus had told them, and the crowd let them go.

⁷They brought the colt to Jesus, threw their cloaks over the animal, and Jesus got on. ⁸Many people spread their cloaks on the road, while others cut branches in the field and spread them on the road.

⁹The people who were in front and those who followed behind began to shout,
Praise God! God bless him who comes in the name of the Lord! ¹⁰God bless the coming kingdom of King David, our father! Praise be to God!

¹¹Jesus entered Jerusalem, went into the Temple, and looked around at everything. But since it was already late in the day, he went out to Bethany with the twelve disciples.

Happy Palm Sunday, and may you all have a Blessed Holy Week!  On Easter Sunday, we will have a special Easter post on the Rolling Hills Youth Bible Blog; then, on April 15, we will resume the Wesley Awards with the winner of Best Old Testament Miracle!