Palm Sunday Reading

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 Psalm 29 (ESV)

Ascribe to the Lord Glory
A Psalm of David.
1 Ascribe to the Lord, O heavenly beings,
    ascribe to the Lord glory and strength.
2 Ascribe to the Lord the glory due his name;
    worship the Lord in the splendor of holiness.
3 The voice of the Lord is over the waters;
    the God of glory thunders,
    the Lord, over many waters.
4 The voice of the Lord is powerful;
    the voice of the Lord is full of majesty.

5 The voice of the Lord breaks the cedars;
    the Lord breaks the cedars of Lebanon.
6 He makes Lebanon to skip like a calf,
    and Sirion like a young wild ox.

7 The voice of the Lord flashes forth flames of fire.
8 The voice of the Lord shakes the wilderness;
    the Lord shakes the wilderness of Kadesh.

9 The voice of the Lord makes the deer give birth
    and strips the forests bare,
    and in his temple all cry, “Glory!”
10 The Lord sits enthroned over the flood;
      the Lord sits enthroned as king forever.
11 May the Lord give strength to his people!
      May the Lord bless his people with peace!

Zechariah 9:9-12 (ESV)

The Coming King of Zion
9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion!
    Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem!
   Behold, your king is coming to you;
    righteous and having salvation is he,
   humble and mounted on a donkey,
    on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
10 I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim
      and the war horse from Jerusalem;
     and the battle bow shall be cut off,
      and he shall speak peace to the nations;
     his rule shall be from sea to sea,
      and from the River to the ends of the earth.
11 As for you also, because of the blood of my covenant with you,
     I will set your prisoners free from the waterless pit.
12 Return to your stronghold, O prisoners of hope;
      today I declare that I will restore to you double.

1 Timothy 6:12-16 (ESV)

Fight the Good Fight of Faith
12 Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called and about which you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses. 13 I charge you in the presence of God, who gives life to all things, and of Christ Jesus, who in his testimony before Pontius Pilate made the good confession, 14 to keep the commandment unstained and free from reproach until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ, 15 which he will display at the proper time—he who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords, 16 who alone has immortality, who dwells in unapproachable light, whom no one has ever seen or can see. To him be honor and eternal dominion. Amen.