It's Friday, April 15, 2022. I'm Albert Molar and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

Christians around the world refer to this day as Good Friday, that is particularly in lands

dominated by Western Christianity rather than by the Ecclesial calendar of Eastern Orthodoxy.

And of course when we talk about Good Friday there's a history to the use of that term

because it's actually the Friday we dare to call good because we are after all on this day

memorializing and commemorating the substitutionary death of the Lord Jesus

Christ on the cross and we're just reminding ourselves that this took place in space and time in history for our salvation.

And thus it is important from time to time and on the annual calendar of the church year that we just remember.

There are two great festivals of the Christian year,

and even Christians who are not following a liturgical calendar

generally do look at these two feasts, these two festival days

and recognize their importance because even in the annual passage of time and

even as churches are every Lord's day gathering in light of not only the

cross of the Lord Jesus Christ but even more so of the resurrection of the

empty tomb. The reality is that we need to confront the truth of the incarnation that massive glorious truth

that the bay born in Bethlehem is a Savior who is Christ the Lord we need to

remember that in a way that human beings prone to forget need to remember with a commitment

on the calendar.

Christmas is not true just on Christmas day or in the Christmas season, but nonetheless it is good for our memory.

It is good for our souls.

Also the festival of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ.

And as we are considering the resurrection of Christ, again, every Lord's day is actually

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