{"id":175,"date":"2011-04-22T10:19:19","date_gmt":"2011-04-22T16:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/josh-simmons\/?p=175"},"modified":"2011-04-22T10:29:21","modified_gmt":"2011-04-22T16:29:21","slug":"good-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/josh-simmons\/2011\/04\/22\/good-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"“Good” Friday??"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"heisrisen\"Ok, so you get to hear from me, Mel. \u00a0We are being spoiled at Josh’s parents’ home this weekend while we celebrate Easter! \u00a0This is one of the few times I get blocks of time without the constant “sweet distraction” of my 3 little girls. \u00a0This morning I was just reminding Sarah (our almost 6 year old) about why we call today “Good Friday”. \u00a0It seemed so sad to the disciples that Jesus would have to die on the cross…and He had NEVER done one wrong thing. \u00a0His heart was the kindest, the noblest, the most gracious…He was God’s Son! \u00a0So why do we call it “Good” Friday? \u00a0Because the BEST thing that could EVER happen for the disciples & for you and me would be the day that Jesus told His Father, God, that He would become the sacrifice for our sins. \u00a0He would die FOR us, when it should have been each of us that died because of our sin. \u00a0It was “Good” because the day Jesus died, though heartbreaking, was the day that would bring the ultimate hope to the world! \u00a0Can we all take time some time today and thank the Lord for giving us such an amazing gift?! \u00a0I hope we do. \u00a0A young mom in our local church here in Missouri just went to be with Jesus last Saturday after battling breast cancer. \u00a0She’s getting a front row seat this Easter Sunday!! \u00a0Because Jesus paid the price for all of us, this sweet mama is able to kneel at the throne of God in heaven this Easter and worship our RISEN LORD!!!! \u00a0Have any of you lost a loved one this year? \u00a0If they put their trust in the Lord, they too are having the BEST Easter they have ever had! \u00a0WITH their Savior, face to face! \u00a0Maybe we can call today “Best Friday”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ok, so you get to hear from me, Mel. \u00a0We are being spoiled at Josh’s parents’ home this weekend while we celebrate Easter! \u00a0This is one of the few times I get blocks of time without the constant “sweet distraction” of my 3 little girls. \u00a0This morning I was just reminding Sarah (our almost 6 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":543,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-175","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-family","7":"category-ministry","8":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/josh-simmons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/josh-simmons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/josh-simmons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/josh-simmons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/543"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/josh-simmons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/josh-simmons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/josh-simmons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/josh-simmons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/josh-simmons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}