busy weekend

Man was it a busy weekend, Friday morning we went shopping for my daughter birthday party. Hey Jade turn six on the first. Boy where dose time go. Seem like yesterday we where at the hospital with my wife Danielle, to have the little precious girl. Friday we had a Good Friday service at our house. Saturday I had a meeting to go to. Then we had the birth day party for Jade, at Ft. Liberty. After the party every one wanted to stop by my house and grill out. we had a good time. My little nephew asked if we where going to have any thing for Easter. He was like uncle Jim always has a Easter get together. so guess what... Yep we had another cook out Sunday after church, we played corn hole and the younger kids had a Easter egg hunt, had a time to fellowship with ease other talk about family and God, that was a good time. we even had a lot of time in pray as a family (Scott please remember my niece in your prayers. I will try and give you some info about her in a few days. She was in your youth group.)
after the get together we went to one of our part time jobs.
this is the first time for me to set down and rest, man it is nice to set down and take a breather watching something that I'm not in to but my wife is in to it...
But it is nice to just set down with her... :)

Good Friday what is so good about it?

What is this Good Friday? I was talking to a guy at work who clams to be a Christian, but he had no idea what good Friday really is. This broke my heart. This guy would always try and tell me what the bible says and would qoute scriptures.

But he has no idea that on this day is the day that our Lord and Saviour was beaten, with a cat-o-nine tails. With every strike of the whip would dig into Jesus flesh and pull back muscle, tendon's and even bones. then once He was beaten they made him carry a cross. (Which was most likly covered in blood from other people that were killed on the cross before Christ). See when my Lord was carrying his cross, it was against His back where he was beaten and lost his flesh and pulled pieces of muscle. Then if that was not enough. The Romans nailed his limbs to the cross to hang him there. Jesus did this to pay for your sins.

See Christian's believe that Jesus the son of God died on the cross, to pay our debt for our sins. And this guy i work with just did not get what good Friday really is.

I cant put to word how bad and terrible this was, in fact most people that were beaten that bad never made it to the cross, see they would die from the pain alone. Try in the next few days to really think about how much pain Christ was in with ever strike of the whip. His body jerking violently as the whip was pulling the flesh and muscle from his body. Jesus did this freely, he never one time tried to stop it or defined himself. That was Gods plan for Jesus to pay for our sins.

So what is Good Friday, Good Friday may not sound so good. But it is because that is the Day that Christ payed my debt for my sin that I would never be able to do.