S7E42: Seven Last Words (Good Friday Messages)

Each year on Good Friday, the churches of the Ministerium of Penns Grove, Carneys Point, and Pedricktown hold a joint worship service from Noon until 3 PM.  The Seven Last Wods of Christ on the Cross are presented, with worship music and sermon messages for each word.  Each year for the last six years I have participated in this service, and each year I have preached on a different word.  This year was to be my seventh year, but because of the Coronavirus, the service was cancelled.  And so, because I had already written the sermon, I recorded it... But I also decided to compile all seven of the messages into one podcast for Good Friday.  And so, in the order below, I present to you the Seven Last Words of Christ from the Cross.

1. “Father, forgive them…” 
Luke 23:34
April 10, 2020 – Ebenezer UMC

2. “Today, you will be with me in Paradise.”
Luke 23:43
“The Tale of the Thief”
April 18, 2014 – St. Paul’s UMC

3. “Behold your son…Behold your mother”
John 19:26-27
“The Heart of the Master”
March 25, 2016 – St. Paul’s UMC

4. “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”
Matthew 27:46
“Forsaken”
April 14, 2017 – St. Paul’s UMC

5. “I Thirst.”
John 19:28
April 13, 2015 – St. Paul’s UMC

6. “It is finished.”
John 19:30
April 19, 2019 – New Hope UMC

7. “Father, into thy hands I commit my spirit”
Luke 23:46
March 30, 2018 – New Hope UMC

Compiled on April 5, 2020 (Originally published April 10, 2020)

S.D.G.