Why is Good Friday called good?

The life of faith is a life following our Lord into his death and life.

Jesus' washing of his disciples' feet is an extreme gesture of love that helps to illustrate extreme love that drove Christ to die on the cross.

Are Christians allowed to doubt? Whether we are allowed to doubt or not, we do. We doubt ourselves, each other, and God. But there is much that we can do about it.

Tonight is Good Friday. Why do we call it good? I can understand Easter being called good. I can understand the resurrection being called good. I can even understanding changing the name of Easter to Good Sunday. But why do we call this day good? Why Good Friday?

The only way to gain your life is to lose it. The sinner in us must die. The sinner dies when we trust Jesus’ promises. The man who loves his life will lose it, while the man who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life (12:25).

It is in the midst of pain and confusion that there is an opportunity for faith. In fact, it is in our most difficult of times when the promises of God are heard the clearest.

If I were to write a newspaper article based on this chapter, the headline might be: “Messiah gladly gives purifying water to impure woman.” And the subhead would probably read: “Woman tells city, ‘He knew everything I had done.”