“I’ve always wondered why they call it Good Friday, when in fact, it was bad Friday, dark Friday, evil Friday…Perhaps the Church Fathers wanted to deny Satan any credit of victory in the Easter story. Although it was bad at the time, it ultimately turned into the greatest victory mankind has ever witnessed. Christ defeated death, defeated sin, and won for us eternal life. It culminated on Good Friday. Good Friday gave us the cross of Jesus Christ…We would not know of His ultimate generosity and love unless this story were told.”
Randal Wiedemann, Five Minutes with Jesus: Transforming Power (Bloomington: CrossBooks, 2011) 48.