Service Sheet (pdf) Today is the Friday we call ‘Good’. Traditionally our worship on this day has been subdued, as we reflect on the passion and death of Jesus. There are no flowers in church, and little conversation as we come and go. It is as if the weight of the events we remember bear down on us. We often give time to the reading of the passion story today, and let ourselves journey with a thorn-crowned Jesus to that cruel cross on Calvary’s hill. We shake our heads at his disciples’ fickleness, but suspect we would do no better. We look on and wonder what God is up to. All this seems more than appropriate in 2021. Call to worship In silence we stand, in wonder we worship, thankful beyond words for God’s gift of Jesus Christ, the lamb of God whose sacrifice enters our pain and bears all our loss. As darkness falls and he breathes his last, we wait, and worship. Amen. Song Philip Bliss’ hymn Stf 361/HP 228 Man of sorrows! What a name. Let us pray: Tick, tock, tic...
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