A Sermon for Passion Sunday

A Sermon for Passion Sunday

From Living Words - Sunday Morning by The Rev'd William Klock

March 22, 2026

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William Klock delivers a sermon for Passion Sunday, focusing on the Epistle from Hebrews and its connection to the upcoming Easter celebrations.

A Sermon for Passion Sunday Hebrews 9:11-15 by William Klock   I’d like to put our study of Ephesians on pause. We reached a good stopping point last Sunday. Now Easter is fast approaching and we need to switch gears for a few weeks. It’s often the case that the lessons for the Sunday before a major feast day are meant to prepare us and to explain what’s about to come and that’s just what Passion Sunday does—not just for Easter, but for Palm Sunday and all of Holy Week. That said, today’s Epistle from the book of Hebrews dovetails remarkably well with what we’ve been reading in the letter to the Ephesians. In Ephesians, Paul’s been writing to a cluster of little churches in what today we call western Turkey. The people in those churches were mostly gentiles—non-Jews. They had been pagans who knew the world is not as it should be. They longed for a way out. Some of them, no doubt, had taken note of the Jewish diaspora communities in their cities and those communities had got their attention. The Jews had a sense of holiness. They kept themselves apart from the moral filth, from the sexual immorality, from the dog-eat-dog world of the Greeks and Romans. The Jews had a sense of…

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Host: William Klock

Topics covered

  • Passion Sunday
  • Easter preparation
  • Holy Week
  • Christian teachings
  • Epistle study

Keywords

  • Passion Sunday
  • Easter
  • Hebrews
  • Ephesians
  • Christianity
  • sermon
  • Holy Week

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Books & works: Ephesians, Hebrews

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