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Good Friday at Saints - Ps Jimmy stirs us to behold the cross and not look away. Sometimes we look away from things that we do not know how to carry or behold. We don't know where to file them or dont have the bandwidth to contemplate them. But true transformation occurs when we behold the cross.

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We continue our ‘Road to the Cross’ series retracing the last steps of Jesus before his crucifixion, and culminating in our Good Friday and Easter Sunday services.
This week "Palm Sunday" we are diving into ‘Jesus entering Jerusalem’
- from Matthew 21

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In this episode, we journey into the Garden of Gethsemane - a place of deep anguish, honest prayer, and ultimate surrender. We see Jesus say "keep watch" indicating to the disciples 'watch me as i pray through this tough time - a pattern laid out for all believers when we are pressed. This conversation invites us to consider what it means to lay down our own will and trust God fully, even when the cost is great and we feel out of control.

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In this message we explore the powerful moment when Mary anoints Jesus at Bethany. While the room is full of disciples, leaders, and even Lazarus, Mary is the only one who discerns what’s really happening. She recognizes Jesus not just as a teacher, but as the Messiah, and responds with extravagant and costly worship.
Her costly act of devotion fills the house with fragrance and exposes the hearts of everyone in the room. This sermon invites us to ask a confronting question: when you truly recognize who Jesus is, will you analyze, calculate, and hold back… or will you pour everything out in worship?
A message about discernment, costly devotion, and the kind of worship that changes the atmosphere.

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Why did Jesus curse a fig tree and overturn tables in the temple? Far from a moment of anger, it reveals a prophetic sign pointing to the cross—where judgment and mercy collide—and calls us to move beyond empty religion into lives that truly bear fruit.