This Palm Sunday service was created for Neland Avenue Christian Reformed Church, Grand Rapids, Michigan. The poetry readings used in this service can be found in the collection The Country of the Risen King: An Anthology of Christian Poetry, compiled by Merle Meeter (Grand
Rapids, Ml: Baker Book House, 1978). Each poem may be read by a different reader in the congregation.
Prelude:
"A Palm Sunday Processional on 'All Glory, Laud, and Honor'" Neale
We Celebrate Palm Sunday
Welcome
Scripture: Luke 19:37-40
Hymn: "All Glory, Laud, and Honor" Neale
God's Greeting
Reading: "Five Days Before Friday"
[Thomas John Carlisle]
Jesus Washes His Disciples' Feet
Reading: "He who would be great among you"
[Luci Shaw]
Hymn: "Jesu, Jesu" Colvin
Jesus Is Abandoned by His Disciples
Reading: "John in Gethsemane"
[Sherwood E. Wirt]
Hymn: "Go to Dark Gethsemane" Montgomery (stanzas 1 and 2)
Reading: "The Agony in the Garden"
[Felicia Hemans]
Solo: "Isaiah 53"
[James Ward]
Reading: "The Look" and "The Meaning of the Look"
[Elisabeth Barret Browning]
We Participate in the Crucifixion
Scripture Reading: John 19:1-16
Reading: "Crucify Him!"
[Elmer E. Suderman]
Reading: "Turnabout"
[Sherwood E. Wirt]
Hymn: "Ah, Holy Jesus" Heermann
Reading: "Lord, Let Me Recall the Fall"
[Phil Silva]
Anthem: "O Sacred Head Now Wounded" Arnulf
We Learn a Deeper Truth
Meditation: "Who Killed Him?"
Text: I John 4:10
Offering
Musical Offerings: "Ah, Dearest Jesus," Heermann "Go to Dark Gethsemane" Montogomery
[Held]
Hymn: "And Can It Be" Wesley
Benediction (with congregation joining on the "Amen")
Organ Amen
Postlude:
"All Glory, Laud, and Honor" Neale
The poetry readings can be found in the collection The Country of the Risen King: An Anthology of Christian Poetry, compiled by Merle Meeter (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1978). Each poem may be read by a different reader in the congregation. The Palm Sunday service was adapted from one submitted by Cynthia de Jong, member of Neland Avenue Christian Reformed Church, Grand Rapids, Michigan. The hymns in this service were selected from the most recent editions of the following hymnals: The Psalter Hymnal (PsH), The Presbyterian Hymnal (PH), Rejoice in the Lord (RL), and the Trinity Hymnal (TH).
