by Barry | Holidays & Special Events
We call it Good Friday. For those in the Monday-Friday, 8-5 working world (before COVID-19 when things were normal), every Friday is a good Friday. But this particular Friday comes with an uppercase G. It is THE Good Friday. (BTW, for a student/teen version of this...
by Barry | Devo of the Day, Holidays & Special Events
Good Friday. Have you ever found yourself asking, “What was Good about Friday? That was a pretty dark day.” Of course, it doesn’t take long to pretty much answer your own question. The darkness of that original Good Friday had to happen to get to Awesome Sunday, or as...
by Barry | Legacy Blog Post
Right about now I tend to run a parallel calendar in my mind with the events of Easter. It usually starts during the Passion Week with its daily, play-by-play account of events. It’s then easy to keep that calendar momentum rolling through, and even beyond, the Easter...
by Barry | Legacy Blog Post
Easter Sunday is typically the highest attended Sunday in a church’s year. Any guess for the lowest attended Sunday? Yep, the Sunday following Easter. That’s probably NOT the effect that the Resurrection is to have on us. In fact, it’s to have quite the opposite. And...
by Barry | Devo of the Day, Legacy Blog Post
An event happened shortly after Jesus’ resurrection that has profound implications on how we are to personally engage Scripture and on the type of atmosphere we are to create around our teaching and discipleship efforts. It is a lesser known Resurrection Sunday...