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Happy Friday, everybody. And boy, is it a good Friday indeed. Welcome to Easter weekend. I am so excited to celebrate this day with you all together. And celebrate feels like kind of a tough word because Good Friday is a hard day. It's difficult for us to wrap our head around exactly what Jesus Christ did for us on the cross. The intensity, the suffering, the immense devastation of the Passion of the Christ. The which is the movie we watched last night over on Daily Wire. Plus, if you didn't get a chance to watch already with us. But having an intimate connection to what Christ did for us on the cross means everything because it is the summit of our faith. Some historians and theologians are actually estimating that it was on this exact day, April 3, almost 2,000 years ago to the day that Jesus Christ was crucified on behalf of humanity for all of our salvation. And as we remember the Passion of the Christ, that today on Good Friday. It's heavy because we're also watching the persecution of Christians all over the world at the same time. Sometimes that's too like a silly amount where people are being mocked and ridiculed and completely drugged through the mud on national television. That was familiar for me this week. Or canceled on the Internet. People are losing their jobs over their faith. They're being sued over their faith. We saw some huge stories coming out of the Supreme Court about that related to conversion therapy and telling children it's okay that you were made specifically as a boy or a girl intentionally by God. But persecution also looks a whole lot more heavy in 2026, too. Our brothers and sisters on the other side of the globe, in Syria, for example, are being drug into the street and executed for their faith. Over the past few years, tens of thousands of our brothers and sisters have been violently slaughtered at the hands of Islamic extremists in Nigeria for openly practicing Christianity, including an attack last week on Palm Sunday that left 12 people dead. Just moments after preaching the gospel on a college campus in the United States of America, our friend Charlie Kirk was shot in cold blood. Just seven months ago, the easiest thing in the entire world would be for us to embrace fear, to back down, to be silent, to deny our faith in Jesus Christ. But what I love so much about Good Friday is we see the transformation of the most gruesome, brutal torture any human has ever endured with our Savior up on that cross and and we watch the very instrument of torture, execution and death. The cross become the symbol for salvation for the rest of humanity for all time. It's the most powerful reminder we have that out of darkness can come the light. And as the demons shriek louder than you've ever heard them before, we can get louder than them in seeking and proclaiming the truth unapologetically in our broken world. In the midst of a chaotic, dark, often broken culture, it's really easy for our or discourse about the subjects that matters to also just feel downright chaotic. Between the non stop noise online and the pressure to always constantly have to say the perfect thing, it's easy to start feeling overwhelmed or all out tongue tied. If you've ever stopped and thought to yourself, I want to speak the truth with grace, but I'm really not sure how, then you absolutely need to check out Father Gregory Pine's new book, Training the Tongue. This has been at the top of my reading list for several, several months now and is especially something I'm eager to be thinking about as a content creator who's been given the responsibility by God of having a microph phone in front of my face. But it's true for everybody and having a whole lot more discernment about the weight that our words do carry. This isn't just another book all about communication, it's a call to action in our lives. Packed with real practical wisdom. Training the Tongue challenges each of us to take a whole lot more ownership over the words that we speak. In a time where outrage is often drowning out understanding for one another, Father Gregory Pine is reminding us that our voices, our words, can build stronger families, stronger communities and and a stronger culture all around us. So to all of my fellow Americans who are trying to live out their values boldly and unapologetically faithfully in public life, this book is for you. Let's learn this spring how to speak the truth with love and bring a little more order, reason and clarity back into the conversation. Get your copy today@st.paulcenter.com Training every year I repost the same video on Good Friday on my Instagram and my Twitter and pretty much everywhere across the Internet. I thought it would be fun to share with you guys. Today we can't show you the Full video, because it is someone else's video. So you can't hear. Hear the music that they play in the background or read the words, but you can go see those on my Instagram and on X as well. But I want to read this for you today because this so powerfully illustrates the power, the wonder, the beauty of why today is so special and so good indeed. Passion Conferences originally put this out at their passion conference in 2015. And wherever you're coming from in Christianity, or maybe you don't consider yourself to be a Christian, I hope this video is as powerful for you now, today as it always is for me every year. Good Friday. How can one describe such a day? The wrongdoing of all humanity, putting to an end an innocent man, the son of God. This is the story of Jesus. Death by way of a cross, all in one moment, bringing death to the bright light of our future. He's never stopped loving us. And yet this is the incredible part of it. Our sin stopped his heart. Our sin drove the nails firmly in the hands of God all along. These were the plans. We told ourselves that we were in control. And this was deemed sufficient for all of us. The brutal beating, the inhuman flogging, the naked humiliation. Heaven watched and saw it all. Our rebellion, our guilt, our shame. Erasing the very notion of reconciling us with God, our sin and our debt overcoming Jesus. Here is our king obliterated the enemy laughing, his plans unstoppable. There's no longer the sound of freedom rising. Now God's people are utterly broken. Behold the chains of mortality. Yet this is what is true. We had heard the stories of old. The lost are found, the blind can see. The weak are made strong. But now we are witnesses to this reality. God is dead. We had almost believed. There is a way of redemption. There is a life of fulfillment. There is a peace beyond understanding. Now we know better. For us, we can say that God is encapsulated in this one realization. The single greatest sacrifice in human history is finished. How clearly we can see it. So what's so good about Good Friday? Just one thing. That the blood of Jesus can reverse the curse of sin and raise the dead to life. How clearly we can see it is finished. The single greatest sacrifice in human history encapsulated in this one realization. We can say that God is for us. Now we know better. There is a peace beyond understanding. There is a life of fulfillment. There is a way of redemption. We had almost believed God is dead. But now we are witnesses to this reality. The weak Are made strong. The blind can see, the lost are found. We had heard the stories of old. Yes, this is what is true. The chains of mortality utterly broken. Behold freedom rising. Now God's people are unstoppable. There's no longer the sound of the enemy laughing, his plans obliterated. Here is our King Jesus, overcoming our sin and our debt, reconciling us with God, erasing the very notion of our rebellion, our guilt, our shame. Heaven watched and saw it all. The naked humiliation, the inhuman flogging, the brutal beating. And this was deemed sufficient for all of us. We told ourselves that we were in control all along. These were the plans firmly in the hands of God. Our sin drove the nails. Our sin stopped his heart. And yet this is the incredible part of it. He never stopped loving us. The bright light of our future, all in one moment, bringing death to death by way of a cross. This is the story of Jesus, the son of God, an innocent man putting to an end the wrongdoing of all humanity. How can one begin to describe such a day? Good Friday. Oh, every year. So I watched. Oh, gosh, sorry, guys. Who, as a mom. Oh, tears come a lot easier. I watch this video every single year on Good Friday. And it never gets old. It never loses its punch. It never stops giving me that stirring feeling in my gut of this is what our entire existence as humanity is all about. You might be watching this video today or watch my content pretty regularly and not call yourself a religious person. And I never say that you have to be a Christian in order to watch my content or become a part of our community or agree with me on a whole lot of things going on in the world. But if I can take a minute and just share with you that what we're talking about today, God becoming flesh. God bringing himself into the world by way of our blessed mother Mary. God performing miracles for the salvation of others. God freely offering himself in the most brutal, inhumane, torturous execution any human being has ever endured on the face of the planet. God subjecting himself to utter humiliation. God putting himself to death didn't just happen for all of us. It happened for you. For you at the individual level, that Even if all 8 billion people on the planet didn't exist, he would have done it all again for you. Back to it in just a second. But first, we are so, so proud to be supported by the amazing team on the show at Grand Canyon University, an affordable, private, Christian nonprofit university based in Phoenix, Arizona. People say that higher education is completely outdated and irrelevant. But gcu doesn't settle for the status quo, they shatter it entirely. At gcu, academically rigorous and industry driven programs are built to move at the speed of light, at the speed of relevance, giving people practical skills, career readiness and opportunity for every single learner. GCU believes that education shouldn't be a privilege, but should be an affordable path forward for all. 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We're supposed to care for and love our neighbor. But what God did for you up there on that cross 2,000 years ago, almost exactly to the day, was for you. We sometimes get so caught up in the motions of our faith that we forget that the repetition of our traditions, the repetition of the Mass, the repetition of the liturgies that we celebrate every week at church isn't meaningless. When you see the priest hold up the Eucharist at the altar every Sunday and say, this is my body. It's the same body that we read about in scripture that is on the cross. It's the same body St. Paul says, was Christ's body broken for you? And we break that body again every time we celebrate the Eucharist and every time we eat Christ's body and blood at Sunday Mass. Yesterday we talked about how there's viral tweets all over the Internet this week saying that the hottest club in New York City is indeed the Catholic Church. Who knew? Who saw that coming? All of us who were paying attention. But there is a unique generational revival to seek what is good and true and beautiful among young people. Happening. Happening right now as we speak. As you are watching this video, maybe you've already been a part of it, but maybe you haven't. Maybe you're watching all of your friends go to church for the first time and start reading the Bible for the first time and start asking the tough questions about the universe and where it came from for the first time. And there's a stirring in your soul to start thinking about that too. If you don't have plans on Sunday, find a friend to take you to church with them. It's an hour of your life, but that hour may just change your life forever. I've been thinking a lot this Good Friday about Mary in particular, and a I've been thinking about her a lot generally over the past year or so as a mom, from a completely different vantage point than ever before in my personal walk with Jesus. But as we've repeated this phrase, this is my body broken for you, understanding what Christ did for us up on that cross. I'm also seeing a lot of videos on social media wondering if while Mary, his mother, our mother, was watching her baby boy be nailed to that cross, she was having flashbacks of Jesus as a little baby, laughing for the first time, falling and scraping his knee, holding her hand when he was scared, or moments where she broke her body given for him in bringing him into this world, in breastfeeding him and nourishing him as he grew big and strong. And ultimately, that's something we should be emulating too, in response to the supernatural grace and salvation that Jesus offers his mother, Mary. She breaks her body and breaks her life to serve and honor him. Chances are, if you're watching my content, you probably are also Christian and have made this a huge part of your life that your faith is so important to you. But as we celebrate the Easter season and come out of Lent, it's easy to start treating our faith like it's cultural again. We don't have to make the sacrifices anymore that we were making the last 40 days in Lent. We don't have to think extra hard about taking extra steps to get ready for Easter. It's easy for our faith to just go back to the background. Don't let it be willing to give yourself your body broken for him the way that Mary did throughout her entire life. Maybe not literally breaking your body for him the way that the apostles did in their own brutal executions and tortures to die for our faith and establishing the church. But in the little sacrifices we can all make every day to make Jesus Christ the focal point of everything we do, what we live, eat and breathe every single day we talk a lot about trends on the show and we react to a lot of trends on social media. It's easy for even our entire political system to be all about what's trendy, but what Christ Christ has to offer us is timeless. So much so that it's outside of time, actually in eternal life. Someday and ultimately everything else will fade away. At some point in our lives, all of our material possessions, our relationships with other people, our favorite food, whatever movies at the box office, whoever's president of the United States, even countries will rise and fall. But he never will and the church never will. It's been nearly 2,000 years since that fateful Friday that day, Good Friday, that first Good Friday. And the gates of hell have yet to and never will prevail against Christ's church. Today we are invited to respond in kind and to ask ourselves what can we lay at the foot of the cross.