Hungry or Hardened?
Guest speaker Kurt Mahler looks at the events of Palm Sunday and the days which follow, in which Jesus deliberately created scandals through his cursing of the fig tree and the cleansing of the temple. But his actions were carefully calibrated to expose our the condition of people’s hearts -- to reveal whether they were hungry for God or hardened against him. The hungry had to go through the hard work of learning to collaborate with the Holy Spirit and the scriptures to figure out what was actually going on, while the hardened had allowed their disappointment to turn into defiant rage. Jesus asks us these same questions today.