Happy Holy Week, one and all, it is Holy Week. Happy Holy Week, everyone.

Happy Holy Week.

Yeah, thanks. We are diving deep into the central story of our Christian faith today on this podcast on this episode. So

thanks for joining us out there wherever you are and spread the word and tell your friends about this.

We're just talking about this just as we're getting ready to go. how excited we are to be zooming in on these topics. And I'm excited that we have the guests that we have today, too. My co-host Emily, Lang Paul's here as always. Emily, would you like to introduce our pastors on the panel? Yes, back with us today, both back with us. Pastor Danny Householder, lead pastor from Hope Ames. Hello. Hello. Good to be back.

Thanks for being here. And Pastor Ashley Lentz, Connections Pastor here in West Des Moines.

Hi. So good to be here, always. Yeah. Good to have you guys both. Should we just get right into it?

There's a lot. We should. Yeah. I mean, we've got, we've done Palm Sunday. Now it's Tuesday of Holy Week that we're recording this.

This goes out on Tuesday night or Wednesday morning.

And then we have our Mondi Thursday services on Thursday, Good Friday services, Friday.

Easter services all weekend at all of our campuses.

I'm more fired than I've ever been. I told our staff a couple weeks

ago, I said, make sure you make room for this. Make sure you make room in your heart and soul and

mind for this. And so I'm going to say the same thing to those who are tuning in today.

Let's not just go through the motions of this. Let's make room in our hearts to receive the really good gospel good news that

God has for us in this story. And it's so good. And so without further ado, and a little bit of an

assist from our friend Ted Lassau, let's dive right into the questions. Why don't we just jump right in?

Anybody got any questions? Oh, yeah, no, I should have saw that coming. Okay, what is the point of the parable of the ten bridesmaids in Matthew 25 versus 1 through 13?

Yeah, so a little bit of context here and a brief overview of this parable, because it's not one that I think many of us hang out in on a daily basis.

Jesus is finishing his final major discourse in Matthew. So this is five out of five for

his discourses. This is the Olivet discourse. He's on the Mount of Olives. And he's answering two

specific questions that the disciples have asked. When will all this happen? They're talking

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