Friday, April 18

7:00 PM

Main Auditorium

We hope you will join us for our Good Friday service to continue to prepare our

hearts for Easter.

Sunday, April 20

9:00 AM

Main Auditorium

Sunday, April 20

11:00 AM

Main Auditorium

Join us in celebrating the resurrection of Jesus. Inspiring worship music and a message of life and hope are just a part of what you will experience. The 9 AM service will also be livestreamed. There will be New Cov Kids for children up to 5 years.

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Lent Devotional

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A Brief Overview of Holy Week 

 

Dating back to as early as the third century C.E., Christians have commemorated the week leading up to Easter Sunday as Holy Week,

a special time of observance and reflection specifically around several significant events recorded in the Gospels during the

final week of Jesus’ life prior to His victorious Resurrection on the first day of the new week!

There are usually five days (and in some traditions, six) during Holy Week that are specifically commemorated, beginning with Palm Sunday, which commemorates Jesus’s paradoxical Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem. (Luke 19:28-48; John 12:12-19).

 

Although not as common, some set-apart the following Wednesday as Silent Wednesday, viewed as a day when Jesus did nothing, perhaps spending the day with his friends in Bethany while personally preparing for the events that would precipitate His betrayal on Thursday and crucifixion on Friday.

 

A more common day observed during Holy Week is Maundy Thursday (“Maundy” from the Latin, ‘command’), the day when Jesus shared ‘the Last Supper’ with His disciples in an Upper Room, where he washed their feet and set before them a new commandment, to love one another as He loved them (see John 13).

 

 

Good Friday is the day we remember Jesus’s crucifixion and death on the cross, where God Himself, in the form of a human being (Jesus) came to earth, lived a perfectly sinless life, and died for the sins of the world on a Roman execution stake (Luke 22-23:47).  Of course, it wasn’t Jesus’s death that was good, but rather, what it accomplished for us.

The late British theologian, John Stott, says it this way:

 

“The cross was the victory won, and the resurrection the victory endorsed…”

Although there is traditionally little associated with this day, Holy Saturday marks the time when Jesus was in the tomb, and in some traditions, symbolizes Christʼs wrestling-away the keys of hell (harrowing of hell) in order to fully establish and secure His victory over sin and the grave. 

 

Holy Week culminates in celebration with Easter, or Resurrection Sunday, the centerpiece of the Christian faith and the most important event in human history (Luke 24). For without the resurrection, we are left hopeless. Without resurrection, we have no assurance that Jesusʼs death for our sins and the sins of the world was an acceptable sacrifice.  But by being resurrected, Jesus not only claimed victory over sin and death, but equally importantly, by being raised. Jesus' death was validated as the once-and-for-all, acceptable offering for the atonement of our sins, making us holy and acceptable to God through faith in Jesus.  Therefore, it is through our faith in Him that we have been raised to new life!