I am a normal person, and I refuse to believe that Christ has risen from the dead.

I am completely certain my own view of religion is more important than believing in Jesus, the Son of God.

I have my priority straight, because my success, lots of money and popularity is way more important than family, faith, and serving God.

I tell you this once upon a time, families stayed together, but this is no longer true.

This is a generation unwilling to commit.

Normal people say I'll be broke, divorced, and spiritually empty.

I do not concede that I will be weird and different from the crowd.

In the future, I will travel abroad, comfortable, and normal path.

No longer can it be said that my life will count.

It will be evident that I am short-sighted, selfish, and only living for me.

It's foolish to presume that I am different and can change the world.

Well, if you thought that was a weird way to start an Easter message, could you just say, that's weird.

I tried so hard. I really did.

I don't know if you know this or not, but it's kind of tradition that pastors share poems on Easter.

For 20 years, I've never written a poem, and so I spent a half a day, and I wrote that poem, and nobody seems to care.

I am a poet, and you didn't even know it, and it sounded good during the week, and then everybody kind of goes, that's stupid.

That's weird. Well, it's weirder than you think, because we're doing a series called Weird, based on my new book Weird, because normal isn't working.

Let's just be honest today in our world when it comes to our schedules.

Normal is overwhelmed, stressed out, always panicked when it comes to our finances, normal is paycheck to paycheck, broke, worried about money.

When it comes to relationships, tragically, is just as normal for a marriage to end in divorce as it is for one to make it, and of those that make it, it's normal for them just to stay together for the sake of the kids, kind of muscling it out, but not really having intimacy.

When it comes to life today, it's normal to believe there's got to be something more, and to search for it, and most people settle for the pursuit of material things, which leaves them empty, craving something more, it's normal to be spiritually empty, and we agree that when you look at the way people are doing life, normal is not working.

If you're new with us, or missed the last few weeks, we were looking at the teachings of Jesus when he said, there's two roads, and everybody is on one road or the other.

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