@ScottTheAmazing thanksgiving and new years are part of the holidays. Dreaming of christmas snow during a heat wave in california. christmas song. O christmas tree, enough said. come on.
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@ScottTheAmazing If I asked you to make a song about your favorite things and one of the things you listed was christmas or sleighs or snow that doesn't make it a christmas song. All of the songs you named were based on activities around set around christmas. Right?
@benrector@tylerjconrad Please don't underestimate your demand here in Utah. You could probably sell out the delta center once or twice a year for the rest of your life. It's only growing. Schedule a show for next year. :)
Today is Good Friday.
Last night, Jesus took his closest 12 friends to a quiet room to have the last supper. He washed their feet. He told them He knew one of them would betray Him. They couldn’t believe it.
Then He walks out into a garden to pray. He feels a tremendous amount of pain, so much that He bleeds from his pores. An angel appears to comfort Him.
A group of men approach Him to arrest Him. Judas kisses Him on the cheek to identity Jesus to the group. Peter tries to protect His friend and cuts off one of the ears of the mom members. Jesus heals the ear. Jesus is arrested.
The mob takes Him to be tried. He is found guilty in a sham trial. He is whipped. Spat on. A crown of thorns is placed on His head. It is decided He will be crucified. The mob is thirsty for His blood.
There is a custom to release a prisoner. The crowd votes on either releasing Jesus (who is guiltless), or Barabbas, who was guilty of murder and robbery. The symbolism here is important. One man - clearly guilty - whose name, barabbas literally means “son of a father” - represents each of us. Another man, Jesus, is innocent. One deserves death. The other does not. The undeserving Jesus is killed, and the guilty goes free. We are all a “son of a father”. Barabbas.
Judas, full of shame from his betrayal, hangs himself.
Jesus hangs on a cross for approximately 6 hours. In pure agony. Soldiers mock him. Mary, his mother, and Mary Magdalene, his most loyal follower, watch in sorrow.
After 6 hours, Jesus says a few final sentences, each of which is worth studying deeply, and dies.
They take His body to a tomb, thinking it was all over. Jesus has finally been destroyed. His followers will just go away now. It’s done. No one had conquered death before. So the story is over now, they think.
Good Friday is called "good" because Christians believe it was on this day that Jesus Christ, through his crucifixion, offered the ultimate sacrifice for the sins of humanity, leading to salvation and redemption.