Prayer helps us stay connected with:

1. God

2. Loved Ones

3. Fellow Believers

4. Unbelievers

Scripture: Galatians 6:1-5

¹ Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted. ² Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ...

Scripture: Php 3:7-12

7 But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. 8 What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ ...

Scripture: Luke 24

There are many out in the world, people that you may know, who are not convinced of the authenticity of the Bible, are not convinced of the truth in the Bible, and are certainly not convinced that a dead man would come back to life again. To them, the Resurrection is simply unbelievable!

We can come alive again in Jesus Christ through an objective and reasonable belief, a reasonable faith, in the unbelievable Resurrection.

Good Friday is also known as

• Holy Friday
• Black Friday
• Bad Friday
• Sorrowful Friday

But Good Friday is good because of:

1. God’s Goodness

2. Christ’s Invitation

Scripture: Mt 21:1-9

1 When they had approached Jerusalem and had come to Bethphage, at the Mount of Olives, Jesus then sent two disciples, 2 saying to them, “Go into the village opposite you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied there and a colt with it. Untie them and bring them to Me. ...

Scripture: Jn 2:13-22

¹³ When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, Jesus went up to Jerusalem. ¹⁴ In the temple courts he found people selling cattle, sheep and doves, and others sitting at tables exchanging money...

Scripture: 1 Thes 5:23

Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Scripture: Galatians 5:24

Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

*Thrust*: Gaining God's power and strength in my inner life by regaining my first love for God.

Scripture: 1 Sam 16:7

But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The Lord does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.”