Sermons on Friday:

It Is Finished

Contributed by Carl Willis on Apr 8, 2003

A message for Good Friday focusing on the statement "It is finished."

Today is Good Friday. A day when we focus on the suffering and death of Jesus. I want to focus today on the importance of the three of Christ’s final words: "It is finished!" Our background scripture today comes from John 19:30. When Jesus had tasted it, he said, "It is finished!" Then he ...read more

Scripture: John 19:30

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Listen, It's Not Too Late...there's Always Hope!

Contributed by Maria Saunders on Apr 7, 2016

The 2nd Saying from the Cross (Good Friday)

“Listen, It’s Not too Late… There’s Always Hope!” Addressing the second saying from the cross: “Then he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom. Jesus answered him, “Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in ...read more

Scripture: Luke 23:42-43

Denomination: Baptist

What’s So Good About Good Friday Series

Contributed by Lalachan Abraham on Apr 17, 2025

Beyond etymology, Good Friday can be called “good” because of the results of Christ’s death on the cross. Jesus’ sacrifice was a demonstration of God’s love for us (Romans 5:8).

The significance of a person’s death depends largely on two things: who they are and what caused them to die. Good Friday, the Friday before Easter, is the Christian day to commemorate the crucifixion of Jesus and His death at Calvary. Jesús willingly suffered and died by crucifixion as the ...read more

Scripture: 1 Timothy 3:16, Romans 5:10, 2 Corinthians 5:21

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Good Friday Meditations From Isaiah Chapter 53 Verse By Verse

Contributed by Dr. Stanley Vasu on Apr 25, 2025

GOOD FRIDAY MEDITATIONS FROM ISAIAH CHAPTER 53 VERSE BY VERSE WITH SUPPORTING SCRIPTURE

MEDITATIONS FROM ISAIAH CHAPTER 53 VERSE BY VERSE ISAIAH 53 : 1 1 Who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? JOHN 1: 12 11 He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him. 12 Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the ...read more

Scripture: Isaiah 53:1-12

Denomination: Pentecostal

Dust

Contributed by William Nieporte on Feb 4, 2013

Sermon preached at a community Good Friday service in Richmond, Virginia

DUST “Good Friday Community Meditation” I don’t know what things have been like around your house, but around the Nieporte’s’ household, we’ve been focusing on SPRING CLEANING. Now throughout the year we do clean the house. We mop floors, vacuum the carpet, ...read more

Denomination: Baptist

Christ’s Cross And Our Cross

Contributed by Rajkumar Pulla on Mar 22, 2011

The cross today is a vivid symbol of a great past victory that involved horrible pain and crucifixion. When we see our shiny crosses that symbolize this past event, we must also remind ourselves that it was really an “Old Rugged Cross”, as the song says,

He who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me. He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for My sake will find it” (Matthew 10:38-39) What happened at the college called Virginia Tech in the eastern United States, was simply terrible. It appears that a ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 10:38-39

Denomination: Bible Church

The Crown Of Thorns

Contributed by Rodney Johnson Sr., on Mar 31, 2010

This message reminds of the immeasurable sufferings of our Lord for our sins.

Introduction: The Crown of Thorns are a depiction of evil mankind at its worse. There was no need for man to reach such an extreme amid all the other disgusting things that they had already did to Our Lord. In our text, we will look at the many things the bible says about thorns and thier ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 27:29

Denomination: Baptist

3 Crosses @ Calvary

Contributed by Ajai Prakash on Apr 15, 2011

This incident, on the road to Calvary, and then at the sight of the crucifixion, reveals both God and man as they truly are. It exposes man as incredibly cruel, and God as amazingly kind and compassionate. It is man who is evil, and God who is good.

Opening illustration: If you were to look at Rembrandt’s painting of The Three Crosses, your attention would be drawn first to the center cross on which Jesus died. Then as you would look at the crowd gathered around the foot of that cross, you’d be impressed by the various facial expressions and ...read more

Scripture: Luke 23:32-43

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Cross Carrier (Simon Of Cyrene) Series

Contributed by Pat Cook on Apr 19, 2011

#3 in series, about Simon of Cyrene, and about how we all need to carry our own crosses.

Mark 15:21-24 – Were You There? #3 – Cross Carrier (Simon of Cyrene) The name Simon is fairly common in the New Testament. The name means, “God has heard”, and it’s a fairly noble idea. There was Simon the Zealot, one of Jesus’ disciples. One of the brothers of Jesus, son of both Mary and Joseph, ...read more

Scripture: Mark 15:21-24

Denomination: Baptist

Choosing Change (The Criminal And The Soldier) Series

Contributed by Pat Cook on Apr 19, 2011

#5 and last in series, about changes that Jesus makes in people.

Luke 23:32-49 – Were You There? #5 – Choosing Change (The Criminal and the Centurion) Today we are wrapping up our series on Were You There? I hope that we have been able to see ourselves, good or bad, in the lives of those who witnessed the cross of Christ. Maybe we saw ourselves as religious ...read more

Scripture: Luke 23:32-49

Denomination: Baptist

Surely

Contributed by Frank Edwards on Jan 27, 2010

One man, and one man only is wholly competent to tell us the story of the death of Jesus. That man is this roman centurion. It was this centurion, who sent his band of men across the brook Kedron in the soft moonlight to arrest Jesus.

Hark 15:39...And when the centurion who stood facing him,saw that he so cried out, and gave up the s p i r i t , he said surely t h i s m a n i s t h e S o n o f G o d . ; S U R E L Y One man, and one man only is w h o l l y competent to tell us the story of the death ofJesus. That man is ...read more

Scripture: Mark 15:1-39

Denomination: Independent/Bible

One Cry Series

Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Apr 15, 2012

Jesus cry, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me!” is a desperate cry of loneliness. I believe this was the worst and the most horrible moment of the crucifixion for Jesus. When sin invaded His life and the Father walked away! He felt totally alone! H

Series: One Thing Illustration: Years ago the movie “City Slickers” came out and there is a scene in the movie where one old cowboy and a city slicker are discussing, what is the main focus of life. In other words “What is the meaning of life?” and the old cowboy holds his finger up and says, ...read more

Scripture: Mark 15:33-39

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Cherish The Blessing Of The Curse On The Cross

Contributed by Joel Pankow on Apr 16, 2025

What is a curse? How are we blessed through a curse? Find out in this Good Friday Sermon

4.18.25 Galatians 3:10–13 (EHV) 10 In fact, those who rely on the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the book of the law.” 11 Clearly no one is declared righteous before God by the law, because “The ...read more

Scripture: Galatians 3:10-13

Denomination: Lutheran

Who Killed Jesus? - A Good Friday Meditation

Contributed by John Kapteyn on Oct 18, 2000

1. Tonight we remember the death of our Lord and Saviour.

1. Tonight we remember the death of our Lord and Saviour. Death is often a horrible experience. What makes our Lord’s death even more horrible is that He was killed, murder by the brutal act of crucufixion. 2. This evening, we ask - who could have done such a thing? Who killed Jesus? There are ...read more

Scripture: Mark 15:21-30

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

What's So Good About Good Friday?

Contributed by Dave Bootsma on Mar 30, 2006

How you view the cross makes all the difference.

I wasn’t raised a Catholic, but I used to go to Mass with my friends, and I viewed the whole business as a lot of very enthralling hocus-pocus. There’s a guy ... nailed to a cross and dripping blood, and everybody’s blaming themselves for that man’s torment, but I said to myself, ’Forget it. I had ...read more

Scripture: Galatians 6:14

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed