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Today's talk comes from Grant Partrick.

As we jump back into this yes series which has been amazing, I'm excited today to talk about the journey of Passion Week,

which today we're celebrating Palm Sunday and we're celebrating Jesus coming into Jerusalem riding on a borrowed cult.

To see all the people lining the streets, throwing their cloaks down before Him, taking palm branches, putting them down before Him as He rode into town as the triumphant king.

As we start Passion Week, I just am reminded for myself, and I don't know about for you, but for me it can be so easy to have a bend there, done that mentality.

I know the word awesome is funny, because I want you to think about the last five times you've used the word awesome.

And then I want you to think about if what you were describing was actually awesome.

Anybody? I remember seeing a commercial with a new partnership that I was really excited about.

I could not imagine these two great companies coming together, and I saw this commercial when Taco Bell and Doritos came together, and I said to my wife, this is awesome.

Everybody knows the one or two people that you follow on Instagram that do CrossFit at 338 every morning, and they always post their full workouts so that you'll know.

And what did they say? They'll say, we did this, that, and the other, we lifted 4,000, something pounds, and it was awesome.

Like, no, that sounds terrible. Let me tell you what I was doing at 338 AM. I was sleeping like a baby, and that was awesome.

What you did might be awful, but it's certainly not awesome. You have coffee, and you say to somebody, it's awesome.

You have a meal, and you say, it's awesome. It just becomes such a familiar word to us that actually what's happened is the weight of the word has been diminished by how often we use it.

And we've lost sight of what truly is awesome. Like, I am all stricken when I look at that.

And I work at the church, and in part, I'm embarrassed to say this, but there's times that go by where if you've lived through enough good Fridays, good Friday can just become another Friday.

When you've been around long enough, passion week can be a little bit better version of last week.

And so what I've been praying all week for me and for you is that God would meet us here, and he would help illuminate, he would throw cold water in our face, he would sound the alarm and say there has to be something in us as believers where when we talk about Jesus is sacrificed for us, it unlocks a different compartment in our brain and in our heart than when we have a great meal.

And this is the prayer for all of us today. God wipe the slate clean, scrape off the calluses of familiarity, and let me see it afresh again today so much so that it stops me in my tracks and makes me go, wow, all over again.

And my prayer is that for all of us throughout this week, we would arrive there.

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