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Mar 30, 2018

Embrace the “Gloom”...

Embrace the “Gloom”...

Passage: Ecclesiastes 7:1-4

Speaker: Patrick Lafferty

Series: 2018 Good Friday

Good Friday Service Friday, March 30, 2018 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM

Order of Worship

"I do not know how to come closer to God except by standing where a world is ending for one man." - Christian Wiman, “2047 Grace Street”

Scripture 1 – Isaiah 53:3-4,11 ESV, John 1:29 ESV

Song – What Wondrous Love Is This

Song – Beautiful Scandalous Night

Scripture 2 – John 10:7,9 ESV, Isaiah 53:6 ESV, John 10:11 ESV, John 15:13 ESV, John 3:14-15 ESV, Matthew 26:39b NIV, John 17:1 ESV, Philippians 2:8 NIV, Psalm 22:1,7a,15a,16c,18 ESV, Isaiah 53:5 NIV

Song – O Sacred Head Now Wounded

Scripture 3 – Matthew 26:57,63b-65a, NIV, Matthew 26:66 ESV, Matthew 27:11 NIV, John 18:35b,36,37b,38b ESV, Matthew 27:22b-23,25b ESV, 2 Corinthians 5:21 NIV

Song – Man Of Sorrows

Scripture 4 – John 19:30b NIV, Matthew 27:51,54 NIV, 1 John 4:10 ESV

Homily – Ecclesiastes 7:1-4

Scripture 5 – Matthew 26:26-28 NIV

Music Special – Hear Our Voice Of Praise ; Trisagion

Scripture 6 – John 16:20,22 ESV

Closing

Good Friday Readings

Central Text: Ecclesiastes 7:1-4

A good name is better than precious ointment,
and the day of death than the day of birth.
2 It is better to go to the house of mourning
than to go to the house of feasting,
for this is the end of all mankind,
and the living will lay it to heart.
3 Sorrow is better than laughter,
for by sadness of face the heart is made glad.
4 The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning,
but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.

Quotes

  • Little men spend their days in pursuit of such things [wealth, fame, etc.].  I know from experience that at the moment of their deaths they see their lives shattered before them like glass.  I've seen them die. They fall away as if they have been pushed, and the expressions on their faces are those of the most unbelieving surprise. - Signor Marratta in Mark Helprin's, A Winter's Tale
  • Until we look [death] in the face, no wisdom is possible, no faith can exist. - Jacques Ellul
  • I do not know how to come closer to God
    except by standing where a world is ending
    for one man. - Christian Wiman, “2047 Grace Street”
  • Remembering my youth makes me aware that I never really had enough of it, it was over before I was done with it. - Rev. Ames, Gilead
  • The recollection of the shortness of life is a constant spur to him. Besides the good things that he possesses, he every instant fancies a thousand others that death will prevent him from trying if he does not try them soon. This thought fills him with anxiety, fear, and regret and keeps his mind in ceaseless trepidation, which leads him perpetually to change his plans and his abode. - Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Resolved, never to do anything, which I should be afraid to do, if it were the last hour of my life. Jonathan Edwards, “Resolutions”