{"id":1963,"date":"2023-04-07T10:00:16","date_gmt":"2023-04-07T10:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=1963"},"modified":"2023-04-07T10:16:44","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T10:16:44","slug":"good-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=1963","title":{"rendered":"Good Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/radio\/good-friday-2\/\">https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/radio\/good-friday-2\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Good Friday. When we consider this is the day the sinless Son of God, died an unjust and cruel death, it\u2019s fair to ask, \u201cWhat\u2019s good about this day?\u201d That question can be answered with a single Greek word\u2014<em><span>tetelestai. <\/span><\/em>Literally it means \u201cIt is finished,\u201d one of sayings Jesus uttered from the cross. In New Testament times this word was written on financial receipts to indicate a debt\u2014had been paid in full. That\u2019s what\u2019s good about Good Friday. The sin debt we could never repay was paid in full by the shed blood of the perfect Lamb of God.<\/p>\n<p>Good Friday was dark and in many ways crushingly sad for Christ\u2019s loved ones and followers. They didn\u2019t see the good. They didn\u2019t remember He had told them He\u2019d rise again. But Sunday morning was indeed a new day! They found an empty tomb and a risen Savior! And because He lives, so shall we. For sure, it may be Friday, but Sunday is coming! A blessed Resurrection Day to all!<\/p>\n<p>Learn more at <a href=\"https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/\">WIFamilyCouncil.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/radio\/good-friday-2\/ Good Friday. When we consider this is the day&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wfc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1964,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1963\/revisions\/1964"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}