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Welcome Holland.
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Thank you so much.
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And straight out of Huddo to Taylor, is James Foster, how you doing.
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I'm doing great.
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Man, great, having both you guys back.
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It's super fun.
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We are now a couple days we're recording this, a couple days post-Easter, and I wanted to hear about how your Easter Sundays went at your uh each of your churches, and uh what you're looking forward to in the future.
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So, holando, what did, what did you think about, uh Easter, how did that go?
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It was okay.
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Here's what's great about it Jesus rose from the dead, that's right, and we got to preach that.
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Uh, there was a lot.
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We had a lot of struggles in our Easter service.
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What was the primary struggle in the service?
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The pri?
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Some of the primary struggles were my youngest children, who, uh are, my kids are awesome and but, uh, but on Sundays, especially Sundays where Jenny and I are both doing a lot, they exploit that, the reality that we, you know that they can be more mischievous and run around, and they know that we're focused on other things and they exploit that.
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So were they screaming during the service?
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Was that the?
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A little bit during the service, a lot before, a lot after the easter egg hunt after church that my wife spent a ton of time setting up for and everything and made you know this great easter egg hunt.
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All the kids including mine probably started by mine ended up crying and was it sympathetic crying.
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I don't know, I wasn't out there, I didn't see it, so you got.
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But uh, there was lots of crying, is what I heard Lots of crying.
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Oh man, there were certain eggs that had like a dollar in it and the kid, even if they got one, they wanted two dollars, or they didn't get the candy they wanted, or I don't know.
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The kids were losing their minds at the Easter egg hunt and so, yeah, hey, your.
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Easter egg hunt was way better than our Easter egg hunt.
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Anytime there's money involved.
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I would have been on your Easter egg hunt.
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Well, it leads to children crying.
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Lesson learned, lesson learned.
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How long is the actual egg hunt part of your Easter egg hunt?
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I think it was like 45 seconds to a minute long, okay.
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So that resulted in a lot of crying.
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Okay, did you guys do anything else other than Easter egg hunt?
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Or did you do like a I don't know a?
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coffee.
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We had a baptism set up on.
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Sunday, which we were really excited about, and um, the person did not make it to church.
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You know, if there's one thing I understand, it's that reality right there that has happened to me more times than I can recall.
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Still haven't heard from them and praying for them.
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Hopefully, hopefully nothing awful happened.
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Yeah, so then then praying for them, uh, another member on our team that was supposed to help set up ended up not being able to make it.
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Another member on the team that was going to help set up their car broke down and they didn't make it to church, and so it's just like all these kind of things.
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Yeah, you know, you, of course.
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Of course I also got in a car accident on the Monday of that week.
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I got hit by a car, just smashed.
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Was it totaled?
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Totaled the car?
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That was.
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How did you get here?
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uh well, we have.
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Praise the lord, we have a van as well.
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Oh man the lord, my lovely wife took me here.
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Oh, she's so great yeah so it was a crazy week, a lot of crazy stuff happening then.
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Sunday morning was just like a lot of chaos, but all of that said, at the end of the day we got to preach jesus, uh.
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We got to love and bless our community.
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The day before Easter, we had a big outreach in the community, uh, which was a huge win.
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So uh, at Eastside, is it at Eastside community church?
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We're at mission, possible currently.
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No, at one of the apartment complexes in the community they, uh, we asked if we could do an outreach.
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Can you tell me what community it was?
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Elm Ridge apartments and uh, they, we asked if we could do something there.
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They were what community?
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It was elm rage apartments and uh, they, we asked if we could do something there.
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They were like, oh, we'd love that.
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And not only did they allow us to do it there, but their management came to the event as well as provided like tacos, donuts, waters, capri, suns, bubbles for the kids, like they came and they stayed like the whole time.
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So we really got to connect with the apartment management wow a ton of people came out to the event.
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Got to connect with a lot of families so was it multiple apartment managers or all the apartment managers from that one apartment, from that one and from?
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another one.
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Oh wow, so it was multiple apartments involved.
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Did they share a courtyard or something?
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uh, no, just some of the other.
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One of the other apartment managers heard about the event, just wanted to come, and so that's so great, and so that breeds huge opportunity.
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Yeah, they loved it.
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We got to.
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We did bounce houses, face painting for kids, food, music and got to invite people to church, pray for people, share the gospel and you know conversations with people, and they wanted us to come back and do more events like that.
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That's exciting.
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That was a huge, huge win.
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That's a win, all right.
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So, james, that's what went down on the east side of Austin, texas.
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How was it on the northeast side of the city, in Taylor?
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Yeah, it was great, probably our best service yet.
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Oh yeah.
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I mean biggest service yet.
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How many came out?
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We had 110 unique worshipers.
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Nice.
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And then we had, with our totals, 138 people, 93 adults and 43 kids.
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That's great.
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Yeah, that's really great.
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You should be really excited about that it's amazing, yeah.
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So tell me about how, like because your service started at 4 o'clock, yep.
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So was anybody already Eastered out by the time they got to you, or they had enough in the tank?
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Was this like someone's second or third Easter service?
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There were a couple of double dippers in there.
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That said they were coming out but did not make it out.
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Oh yeah.
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Which could have been that they were Eastered out or maybe their Easter celebrations just expanded.
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Yeah yeah, which I?
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They were eastered out, or maybe their easter celebrations just expanded.
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Yeah, yeah, uh, which I don't know that you'd compete with as much if you did a morning service, but, uh, afternoon evening service uh works out pretty well most.
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Most of those folks, especially uh are sleepy folks that want a little extra rest you know we have a church that meets here at four o'clock on uh sundays as well.
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It's uh or no.
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They actually meet at no, sorry, they meet at one o'clock, their service ends at four and we're gonna have a another ethiopian church is gonna start meeting here at wow four, nice yeah, I think that's awesome it's kind of fun.
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So you know it is happening, um so all right, so tell me about your easter egg hunt.
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How did we saw pictures looked great.
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Looks like it was a lot of fun yeah, it was great, was great.
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We had um.
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That was probably one of the highlights too.
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Is uh just getting to keep our people there and enjoy them, kind of bring out some other snacks and refreshments and spend some more time with them.
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We were wanting to do like a full on meal, but that's for a future year, yeah it is so hard to coordinate so it is so hard to coordinate.
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So I my and this might just be me we went for the Wednesday sorry Wednesday, I don't know.
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So it was for Saturday.
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We did the Wells branch elementary, which is right around the corner here, and that's where we did the Easter egg hunt, but it was more of like an Easter extravaganza.
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We had none other than our deacon of compassion.
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Aaron Swanland was the easter bunny.
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Uh which was pretty awesome.
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Cody got fired from uh cody got fired, uh, I think when.
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Yeah, he's from easter bunny just from easter bunny, yeah, yeah, he's still, he's still.
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Yeah, yeah, he, he won a trip to hawaii.
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After, uh, he didn't actually win it, they're going to a wedding out in Hawaii, uh, which is pretty great.
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So, but, yeah, he, he went to he I don't think he made it out to the Easter egg hunt this year, but, uh, our deacon of compassion was very compassionate uh on the children and did a great job, staying in character the entire time.
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Um, it was it, cause that's's it's a lot of not, uh, it's a lot of stuffy head that you have to wear.
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Um, but we did have, uh, bunny tail dodgeball.
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We also had the face painting, uh, balloon animals, and we had starbucks and somehow adrian got some really cool snacks anyway, so it worked out.
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It was a fun dodgeball.
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That'd be like the snowball the snowball, so it works for during, uh, we.
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So what's really great about they work for christmas?
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Uh, for our dodgeball during christmas.
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It works for the uh, the camp out that we do every year with the kids at the camp out.
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Where we do, I guess it's snowball dodgeball, and then it became bunny tail dodgeball and I thought for sure a couple guys were going to tear a rotator cuff because they were like really slinging it and we got really competitive.
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When it became adult bunny tail dodgeball Did not think it, courtney Blick wrecked shop once again.
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As you would expect, she does not mess around, you know she's there to win, so, uh, we really gotta appreciate that ended up being a two-hour event, that's amazing uh, which I was sort of surprised by, and my kids were ready to go about a good solid hour.
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15 in they were.
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They were pleading to go and I I had to say, hey, our job is to be the last ones to leave.
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And that did not go over very well.
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We did have a couple meltdowns, um, but that's okay.
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Overall it was a big win.
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But we had about 200, 200 people came to that outreach in that wild right.
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Yeah, it was huge.
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Adrian brought, like our entire neighborhood.
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I don't know how she did it she brought.
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They didn't come to sunday morning, but they did come to the easter egg hunt, so maybe that's just like a you know baby steps.
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Yeah, yeah, no, we had one kid from our outreach, from the outreach that we did uh came to our Easter service.
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No one else did, and so it was.
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Uh, it was one of those, uh, you know, build relationships and uh, like everyone, everyone in the community that we had done outreach with, and we invited them to church, they were like, oh, we'll just, we'll be cooking all day.
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Like all of them were just cooking for Easter parties at their house all day, and so they all had a Sunday plans cooking at their house.
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Yeah, that's interesting.
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That is the thing, though.
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Yep, um yeah.
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Fascinating 4.00 PM service.
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I don't know if that would have changed anything, but yeah maybe do 4.00 PM service on that day.
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That might solve a lot of issues.
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But the one kid that came, she walked, just walked straight there.
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She was like I have to go to church and she walked there.
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Hey, listen, yeah, made it home safe.
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She's fine, that's good, that's good, okay.
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So what did you preach on, james?
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What did you preach on, for the Lord is Risen day?
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What did you pray, john, for the Lord is risen day?
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Yeah, so we looked at the end of Mark.
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So our first sermon series was walking through Mark Did you start like in the fall in October or something in Mark and just like aha All the way through and we did a couple of skipper-oos but we got there.
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What did you skip?
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Like end time stuff.
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Yeah, we'll get there, we'll come back to it, we'll come back to you, know.
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Jesus comes back.
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All right, everyone get over it Moving on Mark 13, mark 14.
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We're a little bit tight.
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Yeah, we did some.
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Surfing Bible, surfing there, yeah.
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We summarized yeah, it's a little summarization.
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We're going to go back to it, though, at some point soon.
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You know, listen, finish mark on Easter.
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Was that the goal?
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Absolutely yeah, yeah, and there's a lot of first year as well.
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I think, yeah, that's amazing.
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Yeah, great place to start.
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Okay, so what was your?
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What was your big takeaway from Mark 15, 16?
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So come back to courageously honor Jesus, and the reason for that is that you see, the disciples are awkwardly absent.
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And then you have the women who are sticking around, but they're watching from afar where Jesus dies.
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And then they see where he's buried and they go to visit the tomb.
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And then we have Joseph of Arimathea, who comes back to courageously honor Jesus Even though he was part of the council.
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Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, nice.
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And he says he takes courage to go ask for the body.
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Nice, right, but basically talking about our identity as being restored representatives that we get from Jesus coming back from the dead, nice that allows us to overcome our fear and our failure to then come back to him and serve him as a restored representative.
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Nice.
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So had you preached on anything like this before?
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Was this the kind of the comeback I feel like I've heard that from you somewhere.
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Was that in the mark somewhere?
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uh, when we did mark.
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I pitched this for you to do, but you took a different take oh, that's right, I do remember that, I do.
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I was like this is how this sounds so familiar.
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I was like, like that's what I remember it from yeah, it was not doing it when you suggested it.
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Terrible.
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No, it's good.
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I also used it in my preaching class at Dallas, so this is my second sermon in my preaching two class.
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Oh, I'm glad that you got some use.
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I thought I heard you preach it somewhere.
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No, we actually talked about preaching planning.
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Okay, that's good.
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All right, holland, you did not choose to go to a resurrection story, that's right.
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Well, I did.
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I would say it is a resurrection story.
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We've been in Daniel, so we've been going through the book of Daniel since I can't remember a few months ago and we were in Daniel six for Easter Sunday, which is Daniel and the lion's den.
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So we talked about uh, I explained up front, you know, knew everyone would be like why are we in the old Testament it's Easter supposed to be talking about Jesus and the resurrection?
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Oh, so you went planning they would have some objections.
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Yes, yes, and just addressing it right away, saying that we are going to get to Jesus.
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What'd you say?
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Stop crying, stop crying, stop your crying.
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That, ultimately, the book of Daniel is a book about Jesus, because all the scripture is about Jesus, it all points to him.
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The Old Testament reaches its fulfillment in Christ, the prophecies look forward to Christ, the types and shadows and all these things are pointing to him.
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So down in the lines, then, especially being something pointing forward to the death and resurrection of Jesus.
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So I love that Talked about Daniel himself, and we hit on the theme of courage as well, his courageous faith in refusing to back down from his religious beliefs and practices, continuing to pray even though the King said you'll be thrown to the lions.
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So he demonstrated great courage and faith there, and we've talked a lot about that theme, of the example of Daniel and his friends in that book, of what it looks like to live out your faith in a hostile culture, how that applies to us today, but also looked at Daniel as a type of Christ and so his being, uh, uh, will it willingly accepting death, um, going into the lion's den and then, uh, being miraculously delivered from death, uh, that, the you know, the King goes down the next morning and, uh, and Daniel's alive, right, god sent the angel to shut the mouths of the lions, and there's even this idea he goes into the lion's den and it's a stone is rolled in front and sealed, you know, and so there's this same kind of idea.
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And then the stones rolled away and Daniel comes out the next day, and so, talking about how this points forward to Jesus's death, he actually died, though Daniel was spared from death.
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Jesus actually died.
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And he only had to do one night in a tomb.
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Jesus had to do three.
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So Jesus is the greater Daniel, essentially.
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I like that.
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Oh, that's really good yeah, so talked about.
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I like the christocentric viewpoint on that, because sometimes it's hard to see how it becomes like because you know, my tendency is I'm daniel and then like, when you read it with like a christ centered view, it's oh, jesus is the hero, he's down, and then I am the guy plotting his death yeah, I, and I think there's value in both, though.
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I think, I think Daniel has met, you know, like passages, like the Hebrews, like, you know, hall of faith and stuff.
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We have these.
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We have these great examples that ought to instruct us in how here's what it looks like to live faithfully.
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But we also, you know, need to recognize we can learn from that, but we also need to recognize how it points us to Christ and salvation him.
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So, yeah, I have a.
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Yeah, that's good, I think that's where I'm always looking for that.
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And sometimes I have a hard time and I'm like, well, I guess I'm too me centered, I'm ready to get whatever.
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Um, uh, I went from the standpoint of uh, the three responses to the gospel message which you know whenever the women come back from the tomb.
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And then Luke 24, verse 13, I think, says and they sounded like, what they said to them sounded like an idle tale.
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And so Peter's response says but Peter.
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The next verse is but Peter rose and ran to the tomb, so his response to the gospel was to verify gospel truth, whereas the rest of the disciples like, all right, well, that's interesting.
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And then Cleopas and his buddy, they head off, uh to uh to Emmaus.
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They got things to do, like they don't have time to check out an empty tomb or look up scripture.
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And, granted, they didn't have a Bible, probably a handy, you know, carrying one in your pocket or anything, and they they'd have to go to the, to the synagogue or somewhere.
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But they just like, well, I guess there's nothing we can do.
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Let's go back to our old lives.
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And it had the, the gospel it was interesting to talk about.
