Why do they call Good Friday “good” when it was the day that Jesus was
crucified?
To all appearances it was the end.
To all human senses the worst of humankind seemed to be victorious.
IT WAS GOOD BECAUSE—THERE WAS MORE!
It was just the darkness before the dawn – The dawn of awakened humanity.
Jesus rose as he said he would. Jesus was not confined to the tomb.
Jesus lives, and his teachings live, because of what happened on Easter
weekend.
There is one obscene word in the vocabulary of a Christian and that word
is "hopeless."
The hope that Christ gives us is best expressed in the language of a
five-year-old boy who was on his first ride on a train. When the train had
plunged into the first tunnel and blackness enveloped them, the boy gasped
in surprise. Suddenly, the train cleared the tunnel and daylight took over
again. And the boy exclaimed: "It's tomorrow, today!”
In Jesus Christ, we have always found it to be so: It is tomorrow, today!