Luke 19:28-40 and Palm Sunday as the doorway to Holy Week — understand this day and the rest of the week makes sense.
John 1:1-5 closes three weeks looking at the infant Jesus through four gospel writers — Matthew's Jewish Messiah, Mark's almost Homeric hero, and now John's Word.
Luke 1 and the greeting between Mary and Elizabeth, with John leaping in the womb — the Messiah the Jews had waited centuries for, present and unannounced.
Mark 1:1-8, and the claim that the gospel loses something when it is stripped of imagination. The Bible is an epic story, and it is calling you into it.
Matthew, opened by way of Ricky Bobby saying grace in Talladega Nights — on how we pray to the Jesus we find most convenient.
A Memorial Day service that begins with an empty chair set at the front for those who did not come home, before turning to the woman at the well.