{"id":436,"date":"2011-04-17T04:19:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-17T04:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/blog\/2011\/04\/17\/holy-week-palm-sunday-3\/"},"modified":"2015-11-25T12:26:35","modified_gmt":"2015-11-25T19:26:35","slug":"holy-week-palm-sunday-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/holy-week-palm-sunday-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Holy Week: Palm Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Palm Sunday (Passion Sunday). Today begins the holiest week in  the year. This is the week of our redemption. The week Jesus made  salvation open to all. On this blog this week, we&#8217;re going to put aside  writing related issues, and each day, we&#8217;ll post a short meditation. As  we work our way towards Easter, lets take a few moments each day to  remember why we call ourselves Christians.<\/p>\n<p>I pray you all have a faith-filled and holy week that brings you closer to Christ.<br \/>\nBlessings,<br \/>\nNicola<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>\u201cBlessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord!&#8221; (Luke 19:38) <\/b><\/div>\n<p>\nToday  marks the day that Jesus entered Jerusalem to joyful cheers of,&#8221;  Hosannah.&#8221;  So many people loved him. So many had witnessed his miracles  of healing  and hope. The believed Jesus was the key to a better  life&#8211;and they were right!<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s take some time to  focus on those things that will help us to strengthen the faith we have  in Jesus&#8217; promises. Let&#8217;s ask ourselves: Have we made improvements in  our prayer life? Have we offered sacrifices to God?  Have we given alms  or service to those in need? Do we truly believe He is the Messiah  enough to put ourselves and our understanding aside and fully rely in  Him?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Palm Sunday (Passion Sunday). Today begins the holiest week in the year. This is the week of our redemption. The week Jesus made salvation open to all. On this blog this week, we&#8217;re going to put aside writing related issues, and each day, we&#8217;ll post a short meditation. As we work our way towards [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[509],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration-spirituality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}