Good Friday – Drew Downs

Sacrifice and Love — the Tragedy in the Crucifixion

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9 min read

The challenge of the crucifixion, of gathering on Good Friday, is allowing ourselves to remember, to face the sin of the world, to redeem it all.

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2 min read

I always struggled with the name “Good Friday”. But it isn’t a question of whether it is accurate so much as what we think is being called good.

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8 min read

The Passion of Jesus is a story of torture and abuse, which is never easy to face. But we must if we want to face our own challenges.

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7 min read

There is both sin and grace at the heart of the church’s tradition of Good Friday. Our first task is acknowledging this truth.

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8 min read

The place of the crucifixion in our public imagination is as an act of consequence or violation rather than revelation.

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7 min read

In the Passion, we receive a story of innocence murdered. But that story’s foundation is all so much temptation.