EP: 64 | Holy Week, Lament and Why Jesus Can Handle Your Mess

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I'm doing something a little different this week. After a short pause following the passing of my father, I'm sharing a conversation I had with my dear friend Lisa Scheffler from our other podcast, Untwisting Scripture. We recorded this special episode for Holy Week, and with Lisa's blessing, I’m bringing it here to Her Faith at Work.

This episode is a real and raw look at the drama, grief, and beauty of Holy Week. We walk through Jesus' final days—not just the big Easter Sunday celebration, but the heavy stuff leading up to it: betrayal, lament, abandonment... and why it matters for your Monday morning.

We talk about how Holy Week reveals the deeply human and deeply divine nature of Christ—and how that gives us permission to grieve, protest, and cry out to God when life hits hard. I also share a very personal story about my father's final moments and the holy experience I had in the middle of my own lament.

If you’ve been holding it all together for too long, let this episode be the nudge to fall apart a little—and meet Jesus there.

Key Topics:

• Why Holy Week is more than just Palm Sunday and Easter brunch

• The power of lament and why it's missing from modern faith culture

• How Jesus' cry from the cross shows us God welcomes our deepest pain

• The difference between grief and lament—and why we need both

• What Peter’s fear and failure can teach us about our own walk with Jesus

• A personal story of holy presence in the middle of suffering

Timestamps

• 00:00 – Why this episode matters (and where I’ve been lately)

• 01:56 – Holy Week isn't just Easter... here's what you're missing

• 04:52 – Palm Sunday: celebration before the storm

• 06:12 – Why the Pharisees really feared Jesus

• 09:29 – Judas, Peter, and the heartbreak of betrayal

• 13:36 – Jesus weeps, prays, and gets abandoned

• 15:34 – "Why have you forsaken me?" and the theology of lament

• 23:45 – My story: lament, worship, and my father's passing

• 29:11 – How our culture gets grief wrong

• 32:29 – A challenge for Good Friday: don't skip the hard stuff

• 35:05 – Why you should step outside your church bubble this week

Quotables:

“If Jesus lamented, we can too. We should.”
“Easter is like reading the last five pages of a book—don’t skip the whole story

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