What does First B Jackson teach about holy week?
Drawn from the messages where it was actually addressed: the words said from the front, the passages taught, and where to hear the whole thing.
At First B Jackson, the teaching on Holy Week resists the impulse to jump straight to resurrection Sunday. Pastor Mark has walked the congregation through the full eight days chronologically, starting with the raising of Lazarus and moving day by day through Palm Sunday, the cleansing of the temple, Spy Wednesday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Silent Saturday before arriving at the empty tomb. The conviction behind that approach is that you cannot fully appreciate what Sunday means without sitting with what came before it. Pastor Carl has pressed the same point from a different angle on Palm Sunday, asking the congregation to be honest about the gap between what the crowd shouted on the way into Jerusalem and what they were shouting by Friday, and asking whether that fickleness shows up in our own lives.
The individual days carry their own weight in this teaching. Holy Monday and Tuesday show Jesus cleansing the temple and healing the blind and lame there, with both moments connected to Isaiah's words seven hundred years earlier about a house of prayer for all peoples. The religious leaders who witnessed healings they had every reason to recognize as messianic responded not with belief but with indignation. Wednesday, called Spy Wednesday, holds the single paragraph in which Judas makes his deal, and both Pastor Mark and Pastor Ryan have noted that the most generous reading of Judas is that he was trying to force Jesus's hand politically, believing he could make the kingdom come on his own terms. Maundy Thursday holds what Pastor Mark called some of the best lessons of the whole week: the disciples arguing about greatness while Jesus washed their feet, including the feet of Judas, and then praying in John 17 that his followers would be unified the way he and the Father are one.
Pastor Ryan has brought the week's question into the present by asking what each person has purposed in their heart. The disciples who said 'Surely not I, Lord' were asking a humble question, hoping they were not the ones who would fail. That posture, of not assuming your own faithfulness but genuinely asking to be shown your missteps, is where the Holy Week teaching at First B Jackson consistently lands.
Taught from John 13:1-5 · Isaiah 56:7 · Matthew 21:12-13 · John 17 · Psalm 8:1-2
The passage taught · 1 Corinthians 15
1 Now I declare to you, brothers, the Good News which I preached to you, which also you received, in which you also stand,
2 by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.
3 For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,
4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,
World English Bible
The messages that teach on it
- April 5, 2026 Eight Days That Changed the World The pastor walks through Holy Week day by day, from Palm Sunday to the empty tomb, showing how ancient prophecy and the resurrection still matter today.
- April 5, 2026 It Is Finished: Walking Through Holy Week A Holy Week walk through scripture and art, tracing Christ's final days from Palm Sunday to resurrection, and the finished work that makes salvation possible.
- March 10, 2024 Surely Not I, Lord A Wyoming pastor walks through Holy Week, tracing the betrayal of Jesus across Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, and asking what his followers have purposed in their own hearts.
- April 10, 2022 Palm Sunday April 10th 11 am Serivce Palm Sunday sermon on the crowd's fickleness, the meaning of palm branches as symbols of revolt, and God's steadfast love that never wavers even when ours does.
Mentioned along the way
- November 12, 2023 You Are Greatly Mistaken Ray teaches from Matthew on Holy Week Tuesday: Jesus silences Sadducees on resurrection, names the greatest commandments, and warns against hypocrisy and pride.