Good Friday Hour at the Cross Plans: The Cross in Four Words

 We happen to have acquired a copy of a new book about the cross, so I am thinking of using this as the starting point for our Hour at the Cross this year:

Good Friday 2021

 

The Cross in Four Words

 

(1)   Freedom: How God Redeems His People – Exodus 12:1-13

 

(2)   Forgiveness: How God Provides Propitiation for Sin – Leviticus 16:1-22

 

(3)   Justice: How God Justifies the Guilty – Isaiah 53

 

(4)   Purpose: How the Cross Calls Us to Mission – Mark 8:27-end

 

(Co-Mission Talks / Book by Kevin DeYoung, Richard Coekin, Yannick Christos-Wahab – The Good Book Company, 2020)

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A YouTube video in which Bishop Rod Thomas reflects on the Lectionary readings (Isaiah 52-53; Psalm 22; Hebrews): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jm8iU4niY7Y

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Last year we thought about the Seven So Called Deadly Sins https://marclloyd.blogspot.com/2020/04/good-friday-notes-outline-order-of.html

In 2019 I looked at the Servant Songs: The Servant Songs

 (1) Isaiah 42:1-4

(2) Isaiah 49:1-6

(3) Isaiah 50:4-7

(4) Isaiah 52:13-53:12

((5) Isaiah 61:1-3)

In 2018 I used Tim Keller, The King’s Cross: The Story of the World in the Life of Jesus to look at 5 relatively brief passages from Mark chapters 14 and 15. 

John 17, 19 - https://marclloyd.blogspot.com/2017/04/a-good-friday-hour-at-cross-service.html

We have sometimes used some poems: https://marclloyd.blogspot.com/2018/03/good-friday-poems.html

I have blogged before about Good Friday music: https://marclloyd.blogspot.com/2017/04/music-for-good-friday.html

Here are some other ideas from previous years: https://marclloyd.blogspot.com/2016/03/a-good-friday-hour-at-cross-service.html

Christ's words from the cross would be a classic choice. 

One might also attempt to consider the cross from the point of view of some of the participants in the story or of those who witnessed it.