Mount Calvary Sermons

PALM SUNDAY 2015 PHILIPPIANS 2:5-11 From time to time I like to tell you about some of the differences between the British and americans, from my vantage point as a Transatlantic citizen. And in my experience, one of the most striking differences between over here and over there is the way people receive compliments. Over there, well, they don’t actually receive compliments. It’s way too vulgar to concede that you may have done something well or that your hair looks nice. So, in Britain when someone congratulates you on a great piece of work, or for acing a test, or for a really good victory in a game you’re supposed to say, “It was nothing, you’re the person who deserves all the credit … really, I just got lucky with the questions, I only studied three things and all three happened to be on the paper.” So suppose you wanted to tell a Brit that they had just preached a brilliant Palm Sunday sermon, the way you’d do that is to give them a check. Or at least a Ca