Hello friends. John Eldridge here. Welcome to the Ransom-Tart

podcast in Easter Week. The climactic week of the Christian calendar, the end of Lent, if those of you

have been observing that, and really the crescendo of the story that we have all joined our

stories too. This is a wonderful, powerful, rich week.

What I wanted to try and do this week is just pull our thoughts back in

to some pieces of the story.

I'm sure that many of you are going to have your own church

celebrations and personal observances and you've got Monday Thursday and Good Friday and then of course resurrection Sunday.

So this is just meant to be an offering this week to try and bring our hearts back into a few pieces of the story that sometimes get overlooked.

In fact, the irony, and I don't think it is irony that this year Easter falls on April

Fool's Day April 1st Easter Sunday is April Fool's Day and I think there's a playfulness to that.

So what I wanted to do, I wanted to take us back into some of the story of Jesus.

What I'm looking for this week is the emotional life of Jesus.

And some of the richness of the tapestry here in the story is actually found in the depth and the breath and the color of his emotional life.

And so I'm going to be borrowing

from some of the really lovely excerpts in beautiful outlaw

Some of the stories the scriptures and riffing on that a little bit as we walk through Easter week as we look at in particular the emotional life of Jesus.

So let's start in Matthew 16.

It says from that time on, Jesus began to explain to his disciples that he must go to

Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, the chief priests, and teachers of the law, that he must be killed, and

on the third day be raised to life.

Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him.

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