S5 E29 Celebrating and Mourning The Most Awful and Most Wonderful Good News of Good Friday
The Scriptures Are Real
Kerry Muhlestein
4.8 • 540 Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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In this episode Kerry and Lani Hilton talk about the events of Good Friday and the importance of commemorating them. They speak of the horror of what happened and how hard it is to think about that, but how important it is. They also talk about the joy of what happened, that Christ was willing to die for us, that God was willing to send Him to die, and how we are blessed by that. They discuss the amazing blessing of resurrection.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, welcome to not only just another special edition, but an incredibly special edition of the Scriptures are Real and our Holy Week broadcasts and episodes because today is Good Friday. |
| 0:23.2 | And that's a phrase we're not especially used to in the church, but I'm hoping we're getting |
| 0:27.7 | used to that. |
| 0:28.7 | I know in Utah they just decided to make it a state holiday and I think about time. |
| 0:34.6 | But anyway, Good Friday is the day we celebrate, and maybe celebrate is |
| 0:39.9 | the right word and the wrong word. |
| 0:42.2 | We celebrate and commemorate the Savior's crucifixion and his death. |
| 0:49.0 | And that is an incredibly important thing to commemorate. |
| 0:53.8 | And so I'm glad to have back with us, Lonnie Hilton. |
| 0:56.1 | Thank you for being with us, Lonnie. You're welcome. I'm so happy to talk about Good Friday. |
| 1:01.0 | And I think it might be fun to begin with a little quiz of where the Good and Good Friday came from. |
| 1:06.7 | Is Good and Good Friday like good as in God? Or is it good as in what happened was good for humanity? |
| 1:13.5 | Or is it called Good Friday because we should be good and show our gratitude for the Savior's |
| 1:18.6 | sacrifice? |
| 1:19.4 | Or is it good as in holy? |
| 1:21.7 | I think it's good because you can eat fish on Friday. |
| 1:24.4 | Oh, wow. |
| 1:25.2 | Okay. |
| 1:25.5 | That's, that's what I'm going. |
| 1:48.9 | But I think I was honestly perplexed. I was like, why is this called Good Friday? This is not a good day. This is a sad day. But the good in Good Friday is from the archaic meaning of the word good, which is holy. So if you look at. Godly, really. Yes. So if you look at the French or the Spanish of Good Friday, it's Holy Friday. |
| 1:51.5 | So I like calling it Good Friday. |
| 1:52.8 | I like calling it Holy Friday. |
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