Platforms don't exist without an audience. So maybe the question isn't why leaders keep failing us — it's why we keep handing them the microphone in the first place.

This week: a verse about worshipping created things instead of the Creator, the wild difference between a Palm Sunday crowd and a Good Friday crowd, why even Star Wars fans prove how fickle we are — and a true story about the time I stood up and clapped for something I didn't actually believe, because everyone around me did.

If this one stings a little, that's not shame. That's discernment catching up with you.

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0:00 Why We Give Them the Mic

0:48 Worshipping the Creation

2:52 Palm Sunday to Good Friday

7:35 My Story: The Conference

11:17 What Health Looks Like

13:25 This Week's Challenge

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