Hey church family, Pastor Joby here, ready for another week of Devo's.

And I want to say, happy Holy Week.

And holy moly, did any of us ever dream this is what the week leading up to Easter would be like?

It is totally different for all of us, especially those of us who work at church.

I mean, this is like the Super Bowl for us. And normally this week, we are preparing all of our

facilities for all of the tens of thousands of people that would be flooding in to hear the good

news of the gospel of Jesus Christ that he is risen indeed.

But instead, this week, one, we're going to be calling you. So if you get a phone call from us,

answer it. Somebody in on staff is going to call you if you're a part of 1122 official.

And we're just going to be praying for you so be thinking about what you need prayer for

and we've got a whole host of tech and video people that are getting us ready and our worship

team's getting ready for this weekend because no matter whether you're quarantined or not the tomb is

empty Jesus is alive and we need to get ready to celebrate that

this weekend. So I thought what we would do this week in the Devo's is we're going to look at

three different events that happened during Holy Week that may help our hearts be ready

to celebrate the empty tomb this weekend.

The first one is the triumphal entry found in Matthew chapter 21.

If you grew up in church, you would know this as Palm Sunday, and we're just going to dive

right in.

Matthew chapter 21 says this.

Now, when they drew near to Jerusalem and came to Bethpage to the Mount of

Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples saying to them, going to the village in front of you,

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