The Once and Future King

What is the significance of Palm Sunday? Join us this Sunday at CrossWinds Church in Spencer as we consider Luke's story from Luke 19.

Sermon Discussion

1. After listening to this sermon, what would you say is the “tone” of the Palm Sunday narrative in Luke? Is this similar or dissimilar to how we typically remember it in the American church?
2. What is one takeaway from this passage and one question that you had after studying this passage?
3. Read Luke 9:51. What is the significance of this verse? How does it shape our reading of Palm Sunday, Jesus’s arrest and trial, his crucifixion, and his resurrection?
4. Read Luke 9:30–31. What is the significance of Jesus’s crucifixion and resurrection being referred to as “exodus”?
5. Read Luke 19:28–34; Zechariah 9:9; 2 Kings 9:13; Psalm 118:26; Luke 2:14. What are some of the ways that Luke’s account of Palm Sunday declares that Jesus is King?
6. Read Luke 19:28; 19:11. What is the connection between Luke’s Palm Sunday narrative and the passage right before it? 
7. Read Luke 19:11–27. Discuss this parable. What is the context of this parable (v. 11)? How does Jesus reveal the two ways to respond to the King? According to this parable, what are some of the ways that we can reject the true King?
8. How does the Parable of the Ten Minas influence how we live our lives today?
9. This Time Tomorrow: How does this passage transform your thoughts, actions, or interactions at “this time tomorrow”?