Say More About Palm Sunday

This week we discuss the Sunday Morning teaching from Fullerton Free Church on March 29, 2026 

Transcript

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Yeah.

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I haven't heard this comedy yet.

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You listen to this podcast?

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Dave. Get coming in front of a mic to tell you how long it's.

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Every time I come on this podcast, I accidentally make some comment that outs me for the listening.

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Yeah. Welcome back to the Same War podcast.

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Do we want to start over? I don't know if we want to start with the negativity.

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Look, I just I don't listen to podcasts period.

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I don't listen to podcasts, period.

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I uh I honestly have not listened to music or podcasts in my car for most of this last month.

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So uh if you can't tell, this isn't your normal crowd in here today. We've got a youth Sunday or a youth Wednesday here today. I'm here with uh well, I'm Kellen, and I'm here with Morgan.

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Hey.

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And Mr. Connor Pfaff.

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Hello, here I am.

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Uh we are here doing the same more podcast this morning. These podcasts exist to uh talk about our sermon outside of Sunday in a midweek to kind of continue to talk about what we talked about on Sunday. And so you can send your questions in any any day, but mostly on Sundays to podcast at Fullertonfree.com uh where we will answer them live on here. Um fun fact about today is we don't have any questions.

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No questions. It's because you perfectly explained everything in the sermon.

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Absolutely no, it's nothing buffet.

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People don't have a lot of curiosity about Palm Sunday.

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True.

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That's a problem.

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That's uh and what do you what do you think we do with that problem, Connor?

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Say more. Uh my curiosity was why the palm branches that we had smelled so weird. Dude, okay.

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So I had students come up to me afterwards and be like, You got the smelliest palm branches. And I was like, I don't know what to tell you about that.

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Were they real? I thought they were like plastic.

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They are plastic. I think it was probably part of why it smelt a little bit. It felt like dipped in gasoline.

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Yeah, it's fair.

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It was yeah. But they were there. They were there. Uh uh, if you picked up yet, last Sunday we talked about Palm Sunday, and we just gave a recap of Luke's um view of Palm Sunday and how we should react to that as uh disciples, being joyful and telling others through this holy week uh who Jesus is and the peace we have in him. And so um you can go back and listen to that if you would like. Uh, but because we didn't have any questions, we gave Connor the task to come up with a couple questions himself.

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Yes, I spent a lot of time on this, pulled up uh some random trivia questions. Oh yeah. And we'll rapid fire a few of these. Are you gonna ask who you're asking them to? Yeah, yeah. I'll ask you guys individually and then we'll see who gets the most points. Oh, it's still okay. You see that power dynamic that just shifted in the room? Now I'm hosting this podcast. Oh yeah.

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Even though you're six feet tall, I'm still more powerful, apparently. Dude, I I've gotten that multiple times this week. That uh that you're six feet tall. Yeah, that well, I said it during the sermon as like a Yeah, I was listening, I know. As like a I don't know, Jesus was probably like five five, five six, and I'm just by fact, probably taller than Jesus was. But that came off more as me like frame moging Jesus.

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That's not the intention. We love you, Lord. Alright, so here's our questions. We'll start with Kellen.

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Okay.

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Um, what is the official nickname of Texas?

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Oh, is it the Jeopardy style? No. Oh, okay.

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Uh why would it be called Jeopardy style?

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No, like if I do I have to answer your question.

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Oh. I've never heard someone called Texas.

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Tough. Uh I will go with the big state.

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Wait, wait, wait. My mine, do I know that's not how that's we're not playing Family of Feuds. My guess is America.

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Okay. This is not going well. Just kidding. Um, all right, so uh Kellen, uh, you're wrong. It was the Lone Star State. Dang. Yep. Zero points. All right, zero points for Kellen. Morgan. Yeah. What is the most common letter in the English alphabet? What? In the alphabet? Like what letter is used the most in the English language from the English alphabet? You're like they're all there one time. Counting which ones are recounted out of the 26th.

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Okay. Um, oh, I'm gonna go with A.

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That was a good guess, but the answer is E.

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Oh, really?

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No points for my.

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I was thinking to my Wordle, the letters that I use in my Wordle. That's a good starting word.

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That's a great strap. What's your starting word in Wordle?

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Stale.

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Oh stale, okay.

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Nice. All right. Uh Kellen, which country was the Caesar salad invented in?

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Oh, this was no, so you would think this was somewhere uh in Europe, but I think this was in Mexico.

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Ding ding ding.

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Oh, yes.

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That's crazy.

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Mexico. How'd you know that? Uh I feel like that's like a that's like a Snapple cap thing. Oh, where's the Caesar Caesar salad inventory? And you go, Italy. And they're like, nope. Yeah, Mexico. Mexico.

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I've been wondering how to get better at trivia, and maybe I just need to start drinking more Snapple.

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It's a good strategy. In high school, my whole personality was buying a Snapple at lunch every day and telling people my Snapple fact.

SPEAKER_01 5:41

Okay, so there's the this brings up a good conversation. I've heard you say uh my whole personality in high school about like 20 different things. Like I brought a guitar to lunch, I wore Crocs, like there was like so many different things.

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I had a lot of personalities. Uh okay, Morgan, so it's one to zero right now. Kellen got one. Morgan, um, if a this is relevant to Palm Sunday, if a male donkey is called a Jack, what is a female donkey called?

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Um I'm gonna say uh take your time. I'm between a you or a doe. Are both of those wrong? They're both wrong. Okay. I just did a I just did a farm animal trivia with my students for Western Wednesday. Oh, that's hilarious. And I was like, and one of them, I was like, was it a donkey? But it wasn't a donkey. I think it was I don't remember what animal it was. That was either a you or a doe for a female. I think it was a doe. Anyways. Anyways, I'm dumb and I was wrong. All right, well, good try.

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Thanks. Still one to zero. Final round.

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Wait, what was the answer? Was it a Jill?

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It was a Jenny. Uh shout out Jenny Oldham.

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Shout out Jenny Oldem.

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I don't know if she's a listener, but Oh, if she's listening, shout out. Yeah. All right, and also shout out Jenny Key.

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Ooh, shout out to her too if she's listening.

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All right. Now, final round. Uh, double or nothing.

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Oh, whoa.

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This is only so that I have a possibility.

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We need to give Morgan a shot. Okay, so let's go with this one. What animal can clean its own ear with its tongue?

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I feel like that's gotta be a majority of animals, right? You think a majority of animals can reach their ear with their tongue?

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He's like, I can.

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Yeah, if I if I get as close as I can, I gotta imagine. Uh oh my gosh. Um, okay, long tongue, accessible ear, it's outward protruding. Um I'm gonna go with Anteater.

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That's a good guess. The answer is giraffe.

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Dude, I would have gotten that one.

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No way.

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I thought yeah, they have long tongues. Uh that's that's I got licked by one once, so in the wild? In Kenya. That's a flex? What the but it was like a giraffe sanctuary, so it wasn't, yeah.

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Was it like were you feeding it, or did it just come up and like Yeah, I was feeding it.

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I have a picture with one. That's cool. That's pretty cool. Yeah.

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Okay. So the score is one zero, Callan. Morgan, you have the chance to win the game if you get this question right. Wow. The question is how many hearts does an octopus have? Oh, what a great question.

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Two.

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Uh yes. The answer is uh I'm gonna go with four. Well, split the difference and you had it. The answer is three. Three hearts on an octopus. Wow.

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I hate trivia. I'm so bad, and I find out how useless I am every time I play it.

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But you guys not positive self-talk.

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But you also Hey, welcome to my brain.

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But you already for the next 15 minutes, we're gonna be picking up.

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Um no, but trivia, like trivia, some of the some of the trivia questions here, like you'll never need that for most anything unless you're doing trivia.

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Yeah, but my small group does trivia every Monday and I don't go partially because the fear of getting questions wrong. Because I'm I when I've gone, I've been widely unhelpful.

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Yeah.

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Well if you ever have to do surgery on an octopus and they they lose one heart, you can say it's all good, they got two more.

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Awesome. I wonder if there's got they gotta use all those all three of those hearts have to be super intricate to like how they function. They're probably all important. Yeah, like you can't just it's not like our kidneys. You can't just like lose one and kind of be like chilling.

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Yeah, probably not. Probably not. But maybe, I mean, maybe there's a backup heart, like a backup generator. True. Yeah. One of them comes online when one goes down.

SPEAKER_01 9:51

Yeah, that I mean, imagine that. We've opened up a realm of possibility with that. If you have um specific octopus knowledge, please send that into the podcast. It'd make them really confused next week on why you guys are asking about octopuses. Yeah, octopi. Octopi. Wow, dude. Come on, English major. Let's go.

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Uh this morning when I went to get out of bed, um, I stepped down and but my whole leg was asleep.

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And so I like almost like snapped my leg backwards.

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Oh my goodness. That's crazy. Is that a is that connected to Octopi?

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Well, I just was thinking about because he said kidneys, and so I was thinking about knees. And I was thinking about how my knee what a reach that was.

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The kidney comment was like 45 seconds ago. Crazy.

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Yeah, but it was eating away at my brain, and I knew that I had to say it.

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Uh, so you didn't fall?

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I literally caught myself on my bed. Okay. As my leg started bending backwards.

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Dang. Okay. We're glad you're here. Yeah. You're glad you made it.

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All right. Uh I'm gonna you guys can finish the podcast.

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Um, one thing we didn't want to talk about uh on this podcast on like a not serious note, but somewhat like on topic note, uh, was uh this last Sunday we had our first family Sunday uh in the main sanctuary. Something we've done um in different stints across our church's history. But uh what we're starting now is every fifth Sunday, we're uh encouraging families to go to not every fifth, every fifth Sunday of the month. So if there's five months, there's a fifth Sunday. Yeah, I said that the other day and someone was like, oh, it's gonna be this day. And I was like, nope, I I confuse that. So every uh month there is a fifth Sunday. We will do this in the main worship center. Uh, but we're encouraging families to come in there, bring their families, worship together, listen to the sermon together, interact with what happens in main service together. And we kind of just want to talk about why we think that's important. And so I'll pose that thing to you guys of what what was so good about Sunday and seeing like families together, worshiping together, uh, and why is it something we think should be a part of um our worship at this church?

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Great question, Kellen. Um, I mean there's a lot of things I could say about it. I think number one, what was really cool about Sunday was like I felt like with all the families, there was like just more energy in the room. Um I feel like sometimes when you you know, when it's like all adults, um I feel like you can just get like overly serious about things sometimes, or like you like are like, oh, I don't want to be too expressive with this, or like, you know, like yeah, and I feel like with the kids around, it's just like they just like lightens the mood a little bit. Yeah, they like literally don't care what they look like, and they like are are like you know, shouting things out sometimes at random moments, but I feel like it just makes you realize like, oh, it's just like not that it doesn't have to be that serious. Like we can like have fun and like we don't have to like stoically sit and like listen and like even worship, like the joy that they bring, like it just like I think the chaos that having kids in service brings, I think sometimes makes us realize like I mean and Jesus loved kids, so yeah, like it's like talks a lot about it. Yeah, so it's like I I just feel like there's a lot that we can learn from them, you know, and how they live their lives. I love that. For sure. I love that.

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Yeah, I think it's a cool I kind of said this on Sunday, but I feel like it's just a cool like visual representation of the fact that like our church is our church.

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Yeah.

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I was even thinking about not that childcare is unbiblical, not trying to drop a hot take here. Childcare during service is very helpful and we appreciate our childcare team. But I was thinking about like the early church. I'm like, there were probably like the people that had kids. Oh, yeah. I don't know what they did with their kids during that time, but I'm guessing there were kids in the room when they would like meet in a living room and worship together.

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Yes.

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So it just, yeah, it feels like it represents more generations of our church, a fuller picture of our church, and it's a chance for all of us to be reminded of how important it is to pour into the next generation of our church. Yes. To see them as leaders and as vital parts of our body. And I feel like our I was really encouraged. I love something I really love about our church is just the way that we do that, the way that people really embrace the younger people and how excited everyone in the room was to have kids there. Probably not everyone, but 99.9% of people. Like, yeah, it was just cool to see uh the way they received the the kids that were in the room with you know warmth and energy. So yeah.

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No, I I agree wholeheartedly with both of those. I had a moment where I was like, uh after I'd got done teaching, was looking around on Sunday and I was like, what if this was every Sunday? This is so sweet. And I know realistically that's just not possible at times, but like it was just so sweet to see. I saw families I hadn't seen in a while. I saw uh kids like raising their hands and worship with their family. I saw families giving out communion, and I was like, that is just so cool. That's such a sweet moment to have. And so um, I I yeah, I agree with both of you guys if the the extent of like how much children are vital to the larger church, on top of like how amazing it is that our church allows us to highlight something like that. It's it's a very, very cool thing.

SPEAKER_04 15:14

Super cool.

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Um, what like what I don't know what I'm trying to ask, but the the I the idea behind it is um if this was more regular or we realized that like this isn't just like a a special occasion, or we didn't realize that this was just like um a moment to highlight kids, like what do you think it would impact in our relationships with God as adults if we just kind of saw this as like this is our church period? Like what what do we have to learn from a kid, I guess, in in moments like that, in a service like that? That might be a question to ponder or think on, but that I feel like that's where my my head was going as we as we talked.

SPEAKER_02 15:56

Well, okay. I I don't know, this I think is not really fully answering your question, but I think like just in the idea of like if it was more regular, like what would the benefit be? Or you know, like if we you know, I think like even I think of our high schoolers, because I am with them all the time, um, but middle schoolers as well, I would lump into this, but high schoolers especially, like the benefit for them is that it makes them feel like more familiar with main service, and when they go to college, um they may have a young adult specific Sunday service if they, you know, are going to like a big church, but realistically, like most churches don't have that. They have like young adult groups, but like they're going to main service on a Sunday. And so I think it really helps with their transition and their comfortability and feeling like, oh, like I am a part of this. Um and so I know you asked about like what the adults can learn, but I think that like it's both ways of like I think the students are learning something of like they're welcome in this space, and here's what it can look like, and here's how they can participate in it and giving them opportunities to do that, you know. I love that.

SPEAKER_01 17:16

That's good. It's a good reminder.

SPEAKER_04 17:17

Yeah, for sure. I think this is kind of what you guys were saying too. I think there's by seeing the way that kids worship, yeah, there's a freedom. Like I feel even, excuse me, when I lead worship in HSM, there's I love doing that. And then when I go over and lead an MSM, it's like those kids are singing as loud as they can. Like there's no um, I don't know, they just there's a culture in that room, but they just want to sing so loud and there's so much freedom. And I think sometimes as we get older, we become a little bit more aware of what people are thinking of us, or more aware of, oh, I don't I don't worship like that. I'm more comfortable worshiping like this. Um we maybe get sometimes we get a little bit more rigid with the way that we worship. So it's something about seeing kids and just the freedom and the abandon and just wanting to s sing out to Jesus and celebrate the song, the words that we're singing, that just inspires me to have even more freedom, yeah, worship.

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Yeah, I I think the picture that comes to my head is uh anytime uh Tracy singing in main service and Jake and we're talking about the Lyndon Myers will bring their two sons like back into service, and like for the last song, her sons are like jumping and dancing in the front of the worship center. It's just such a beautiful picture of them like being so excited to see their parents participate in church and like them in turn participating in church in this way because they see their parents do this thing, and it's I it just it look works as a cycle of like I imagine for them too. It's great to see how joyful their kids are about being in that room and jumping around and seeing them participate, and so it's just uh it's a it's a cool thing that we get to see that in glimpses through the next year, through these uh fifth Sundays of the month of the month that have five Sundays on the months of five Sundays.

SPEAKER_04 19:03

Months of five Sundays. That sounds like I don't know what it sounds like, a band or something. Ooh. Not a great band.

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If you had to give top three band names, what'd they be? Oh my gosh. Like make them up? Yeah, sure.

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Um I'm not uh okay. Uh the Red Hot Chili Peppers, uh Blake 182. Got it. And one more John Mayer trio. No, John Mayer Trio.

SPEAKER_03 19:30

Dang, did you just come up with that on?

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Let's go. Yeah. Uh any last notes? You guys got anything else for uh maybe Easter to look ahead or for to cap off Pomp Sunday? Anything else from you guys?

SPEAKER_04 19:44

I thought you did a great job on Sunday. Thanks for sharing. Yeah. It was cool to do a more Palm Sunday oriented message. We don't always do that, so it was cool to get to kind of kick off Holy Week by thinking about Jesus' triumphal entry, also being reminded that like he entered into Jerusalem as a king, yeah, but ultimately was a king who came to suffer. And so taking communion on the same morning. And there's so many kind of realities that we hold together in Holy Week, yeah. Um, of both you know, Jesus' kingship and his suffering and his resurrection. So I felt like this this morning, Sunday morning, kind of teed up a lot of the things that we get to reflect on throughout Holy Week.

SPEAKER_01 20:24

I love that. Thanks for that word. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 20:27

And that is, yeah. Great wrap-up.

SPEAKER_01 20:29

Great wrap-up. Hey, if you are listening to this podcast and for some reason you found it on Spotify, or you found it through your friend, you don't usually come to this church. So let me give you a couple nuggets on what's coming up this week. Uh, if you are looking for what's happening on Easter weekend on Friday, we have our Good Friday service at 7 o'clock in our main worship center. Uh, that'll be about an hour and a half, Connor, the service to expectation.

SPEAKER_04 20:52

Yeah, hour and 15.

SPEAKER_01 20:54

Hour 15. Uh, so come. It's one of our it's one of the coolest things I think our church does. Come experience it out with us. And then for Easter Sunday, we have uh a daybreak service at 6 30. I think that's right. 6 30.

SPEAKER_04 21:07

Check the website.

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Check the website. I'm gonna throw some times at you, but double check me on the website. I know for sure our two main services are 9 30 and 11 15. And so show up for those if you would like a church to come to and invite your friends for if they're looking for a place to uh celebrate Easter on Sunday. But we thank you guys for being with us, and we thank you guys for listening uh to say more. If you have questions, send them into podcast at floatin'free.com. See you guys.

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Say more.

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Say more. Shout out Lion and Lamb for pathonating us for this podcast.

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This is the man for Line and Lamb. You can go find them on uh Bray Boulevard.