to the church.

Amen, amen, amen.

How about that epic video, huh?

Nothing says good morning like the apocalypse.

So, man, we are starting a new teaching series today where we're going to be focusing over the next seven weeks on

Revelation chapter two and three in the words of Jesus and addressing the seven churches of Asia Minor.

But before we dive into that today, we got a little family business to discuss.

And as you well know, we have kicked off the Lent season here at the Church of 1122. Amen.

Amen. It's good. We take Lent very, very seriously.

This is a season of preparation where we are preparing our minds and our hearts to celebrate

the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead on Easter Sunday. We are crazy about Easter here.

We love Easter here. The resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead is the centerpiece of our faith,

and we want to make as big a deal about it as we possibly can all the time, but specifically

at Easter. And so Lent helps us prepare to celebrate the resurrection. We prepare as a church

a couple of different ways. One is that we pray together. Every Wednesday at all of our campuses

during the lunch hour, our campuses

are open for you to come and pray if you can and just to take an hour in the middle of your week

to focus on hearing God's voice and spending time with Him and with your brothers and sisters

in Christ and we fast together. We, from sun up to sundown on Wednesdays, we say no to the things of the

flesh in order to say yes to the voice of God and to make room for him to prepare us. And then

this year we wanted to do something unique, which was to create a resource that would help you

in your preparation process. And so we created a daily devotional starting tomorrow. Pastor Joby kicks off a series

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