before i begIN ALLOW ME TO EXPRESS MY GRATITUDE TO YOU

FOR SUPPORTING AND ATTENDING

THSSE MEDWHEK SERVICES DURING THE LENTEN SEASON. MY EXPSREHICE WITH WED. EVENING

SERVICES IN THs PAST HAS BEEN FAR FROM EXCITING AND AS YOU

COURAGED WHEN FIVE MEMBERS SHOWED UP FOR OUR FIRST ATTEMPT

CAN IMAGINE I WAS QUITE DIS-

AFTER IT WAS PROPERLY

PUPLICIZED, HOWEVER, I DISCOVERED THAT YOU AUS A GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO ARE S-RIOUS ABOUT

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MAXING SPIRITUAL PREPARATION FOR EASTER. YOU ARS CONCERNZ!

) ABOUT THE EVENTS OF CALVARY

AND THE HSANING THEY HAVE FOR YOUR LIVES aif HAS BEEN GRATIFYING TO MZ TO SHARE THIS

DURING THES PAST FOUR WEEKS WE HAVE BEEN THINKING ABOUT

THES ACTORS IN CALVARY'S DR MA.
—_—— eee

(moss WHO SPOKE TO THE cross. AND IN EV@RY INSTANCE IT BEGAME CLEAR THAT THE WORDS THAT

FELL ON OUR LORD'S BARS COULD WELL HAVE BEEN SPOKEN BY US MAD WE BEEN THERM. BUT NOW

WE HAVE COME 10 THS END OF THE LINE, THE ONLY WORDS THAT RI

CROSS ARE OUR Owl, arm GOOD FRIDAY JUST TWO DAYS IN THE ]

MAIN TO BE SPOKEN TO THE

FUTURE WE MUST SHGIN THINKING

ADOUT WHAT WE HAVE TO SAY TO A DYING LORD. WHAT WILL BE OUR WORDS TO THE CROSS. I THINK

PERHAPS IF WE PONDER THE MZANING OF THE CRUCIFIXION, IF WE

FIND OURSELVES SPEECHLESS. WHAT POSSIBLY CAN WE SAY IN TH)
eee

e
FOR OUR SAKES?

f

UNDERSTAND IT FULLY We WILL

} FACE OF DIVINE LOVE SUFFERING

CHRISTIANITIES' CHNTRA

26

Aly

EMPTY TOMB IS

[EMER ONLY 3B
UTTER,
QUR_ WOR

RED BECAUSE HE FIR

WORDS TO THE CROSS

IT HAVE FOR ZACH ONE OF US P

MEANINGLESS WITHOUT THE CROSS.

iT DIED WILLINGLY ON

mito NALLY.

A CHRIST W
pcan kL

OUR

UST THINK

wo PL

iH) ROSE FROM

BEHAI

EIPTY TOMB**DUT WE MUST NEVER FORGET THAT THE

THS DEAD IS OUR

ABOUT WHAT IT MHANS, WHAT SIGNIFICANCE DOES

JAYS OF LOOKING AT THE WOHLI

PSRATIONAL TODAY.

FIRS

TLY

EVIL, | GO a) is si} IPLY }

WTD W
WLS A MA

EASTERN RELIGIONS,

oS

THE HIGH=ST

—

LIFE.

) BOTH PAIN ANi) PLEAS

IMMUNE

PARTICIPATING IN THLS EVIL WOH
————

OF MYSTIC

PART OF OUR LIVE.

PHILOSOPHIES HAVE BEEN
on

THERS IS THE PHILOS OPHY THAT Ri GRD
JONEXIS TAN
N'S HIGHEST
GOD IS AVA

wR

IN AND DAY OUT STAMPING AT THE SUN UNTILL THEY ARE
Le

WHO SPENDS ALL HIS TIME O

EXPOUNJED BY MEN

—_—

Sle

DOWN THR

RDS THS WORLY

THIS VigWw IS STILL HELI

\ILASLE ONLY WHEN ONE HAS WHC

WHER He IS COMPLETELY Is

ity

) IN WHICH WE LIVE, ALL THREE
GH HISTORY AND ARE STLLL

AS BAD, LIFE IS UNCONDITIONALLY

—_

BY MOST OF THE MYSTICAL

COMPLETELY ESCAPE FROM
LLY MASTERED HIMSE aunt
—_—_— <_<

OLATED, LIVING AND Yut NOT

tLD. THIS IS THE OBJECT OF 4

A BED OF NAILS TO PRC

IS SALVATLON

——,

LS IT NIRVANA.

BUDDAHIST CA

ABSOLUTE ESCAPE FROM LI}

THE ONS BIG FLAW IN

THE REASON C

H& DEVOUT BUDDAHISTS wWwHD

BLIND: OR THE SAMS TYPE

VE THAT HS IS NO LONGER A
FOR THES” PS)PLE, THE

3.

5S MALNTS

NED {

ONLY BY

OUT LIKE A SE THUMB, IF LIM IS ALL EVIL, IF SALVATION I
_——___,
3 PARATING OLS FROM LIFE AND THE WORLD, WHAT POSSIBLE
ver...
AY aE
WEVA
TO TAKE ONE'S OWN LIFE OEVLOUS

ALTEANATL VEY TO T Ge

ny
i_s

THE Pi

FROM THIS VIEW IS

LIFE TO BE CONDITTONALLY GOOD. EV

EVIL’ AND BADNESS,AS SUCH

ONE OF THESE PERSONS CONFRONTS A SITUATION THAT WOULD ORDI

EXPLAINED MER iS THE OF GOOD, BUT NOT EVIL. H

oe

ASS ICTs
—

) me

IDEALISM AND ON MANY OCCASIONS HAS FOUND ITS WAY INTO THE
--~—_—_____
LIBERALISM EXTENDING UP TO TH GINVING OF THIS CENTURY AN

WAS A ROSY woRI
a

WAS THE ACCEPTED PHI! ) LIF! It wD,

rene
iG ky ¢

TH WAY TO BRIN BOUT UNLV

Gi Ph Ol M

AND TSCHNOLOGY SE HAE)

PHRISTI AN

tZASON IS THERE POR LIVING. ¢

*

co K\Ne
2a.0

BE ONLY ONE

LY THLS BeeeORPEY CANNOT BE RSOONCL L&D

LOSOPHY THAT BELIEVES

ya MPLY DO NOT HAIST, WHENEWER

ARILY BE CAILED EVIL IT IS
ae aa

IS PHILOSOPHY IS CALLED

IN EUPROPHAN

—_———..-

CHURCH .

iD THE 1lst WORLD WAR IDEALISM

——_

STRIFS, WITH SCLENCE

SAL COMFORT AND LUXURY.

——.

INWIL DID

ODNESS,
mca: inloanai

BACH PERSON BORN WAS THOUGHT

SOUL, NOT IN LIFE ITSELF. ATTRATLIVE

FORITIS JISC LT TO CALL WORLD

T T VAl EAs

i3_]

A STAGGERING BLOW

ERAL IDEALTSY IS NEARLY DEAD AND RIGHTY So.

PHILOSOPHY,

OT EXTST, NOT IN THs HUMAN

IT IS BASY TO ACCEPT AND

WITH THES OUTER BAK OF Wwi ITS CAUSE WAS DELIV ERED

WIDE WAR MERELY THE ABSENCE OF GOOD.

he

THE THIRD WAY OF LOOKING AT THE WORLD, OR PHILOSOPHY d

CHRISTIAN CAN BE CALLED DUALISM. LIFE IS NOT ALL @OD OR

OF BOTH. TH GOOD AND EVIL ARS BORN IN
—_—__—

+

THE POTENTIAL FOR BO

EXT PERSONS.

GAGED IN A CONSTANT S

WORLD AND ARE E?
——

tpt

tie a

=_

PART OF THE LIFE WE LIV’ AND WE MUST FIN) M Cl

—

ANS OF

LIKEWISE IN OUR PERSONAL LIVES THERE IS A CONSTANT
GOOD AN) EVE L/AND BOTH SHOW THsIn FACES IN THE EXISTENCE O
MXXE PRLI“VE THAT EVE Y HUMAN THAT EVER LIVED HAS SIN

i

F LIFE AND THE ONE THAT IS

AlL EVIL, IT CONTAINS ELEMENTS
<a

A PERSON AND OF COURSES THEY

D AND EVIL BOTH EXIST IN THE
(3 FIND IT HARD TO UNDER

)

Y DENY THE EXLS TENCE OF VIL

DPING WITH AND SUSDUING. XT ,

—

& BETWEEN THE FORCES OF

1 ON * US. WS DOORS

a

|

SHOWN HIS POTENTIAL FOR

EVIL, AND NSEDS FORGIVENSS. AND OF COURSE WE ALSO ESLISVE
—

5

GOOD IS REALIZH) TIME AND TIMS AGAIN.

HS

THIS LEADS TO THE F WHICH IS THE SUPREME FOR

POWERFUL IN TH& WORLD, THE BADNES: OR THE GOODNESS?

OF THE CROSS CASTS IT SHABOW INTO OUR THINKING AND INTO Ol

m

JESUS CHRIST WAS THE EPLIQ@HE OF GOODNESS IN THE WORLD.

SON OF GOD, SIN WAS SOMETHIN IOWN IN WIS LIFES: THORS

Dp

WAS PERFECTION.
ee

ITIGQAT

ARS

POTENTIAL FOR

Db, GOOD OR BVLL: WHICH 1S MORE

-

T THIS POINT THAT THE IMAGE

t LIVES.

BECAUSE Hi WAS THE CHRIST, THE
NOTHING EVIL ASOUT HIM.

HIS LIFE.

EAL STANT IN Hi

De

i

ACCLAIMED BY ALL, HALLO WAND REVERED AS THE EXAMPLE OF EA

?

wy
fio d

WHOLE WORLD BOW AT HIS F
ae

——

THE WORLD CRUCIFIS) HIM. VIL WON THE DAY AS GOODNESS DI!
_—_—_—_—,

FOR EVER PROVES THAT EVIL DOBS BALST AND SEEMS ALSO TO PROV

IN THE WORLD. fo CALVARY GOOD AND SVIL MST HEAD ON IN RAT

ROUND.

USE OF LIVINGS NOTHING GOD COULD COMS OF IT. WHY TRY T

AND PLEDGH TO IMITATE HIS GOODNESS

SO PPED HERE THE SITUATION WOULD BE TRAGI

HAP Pago? WAS HE

tTHLY PERFECTION. OULD THE

¢

? YOU KNOW THE ANSWER,

® ON THE CROSS. THIS FACT

LF

THAT EVIL REIGNS SUPREME

) INDEED. WHA'T WOULD BE THE

ND WAS REWARDED BY DEATH.

BUT THE STORY DOES NOT END HERE

GOODNESS DID NOT LOSE

Je

TH

|

THE CRUCIFIXION GOODNESS ROSE AGAIN

Fa)

/ FOREVER DEFEATING EVI

FORCES OF EVIL MUST BOW TO THE FCRCE OF GOOD.

THIS IS THE NEWS THAT MAKES LIFS WORTH WHILE/ ASI HAV
—_——

THIS NEWS AIL IS FUTILE, IT DOES NOT DENY THAT EVIL EXIST
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TESTIFIES TO ITS POWs.

-_

—

SACH ONS OF US THAT GOOD CAN anf vs IT HAS BEEN pou. /
5 el

BATTLE BY ANY MEANS, JESUS DID NOP CHEASs TO EXIST AFT

Rk HIS DEATH. THREE VAYS AFTER

7 FORSVER PROVING THAT THE

E TRIED TO POLST ous/ aroun

5, ON THE OTHER HAND IT

BUT MOST IMPORTANT, THE PTY CROBS AW THM BIPTY TOME TELL

6.

AS I$ SKID SUNDAY IT IS BIFFICULT 1 KNOW HOW ONE SHOULD FEEL ON GOOD PRIDAY,

SHOULD WE BE SAD OR GLAD? AS A MATT OF

———

FACT WOULDN'T I1

THE DAY BAD PRIDAY? [rw GOOD IN GOOD FRIDAY IS JUST HIS.

a
ia

EMERGED THE VICTOR.

HOw DO WE FEEL ON THAT DAY?

4

HEAD IN OUR Owns LIV BECAUSE HEREIN WE SHARE THE

pure

BUT SEOONDLY AND MOR! IMPORTANTLY WE ARE THANKFUL. IT WAS

DAY JUST TO PROVE A POINT.

——

US SO MUCH THAT HE WAS WILLING TO SACRIFICE THS CHRIST, TO

PROVE THAT ULTIMATE. Y GOOD IS THE vaca. f mye oan OF TH
_—

THE STORY OF WHAT MuN DID TO JESUS CHRIST, BUT THE STORY OG

AT THIS POINT I MUST TELL A STORY THAT HAS MEANT MUCH

INTERSST TO YOU: IT IS A STORY THAT DEALS PRECISELY WITH T

RESPONSIELE FOR 1
———

} SERMON.
4
DURLNG MY FINGT YAR AT SEMINARY MY WIFS AND I HAD TH

A
a

SAME APARTMENT BUILLU NG WLTH YOUNG AUSTRALIAN MINISTER A

COUNTRY TO STUDYAT THE U. OF C. Fdi A YAR.
a

/

BATTLE, A TERRIBLE CONFLICT ENSUED AN

CRRTALNLY EVIL WON THS FIRST ROUND BU

FIRSTLY SORRY FOR THe TIM
—_—_—_—_—_—————

T FOR

THE CLUB TO HOW WE SHOULD FEEL
——— ee,

BE MORE APPIOPRIATE TO CALL
Von THAT DAY GOD AND EVIL

D AFTER THREZ DAYS GOOD

iY ULTIMATELY IT LOST THE MATCH.
LS EVIL HAS RAISESITS UGLY

OUR LORD'S CRUCIFIXION,

A DEAR PRICE JESUS PAID THAT
IS IN THE FACT THAT GOD LOVED
} CRUCIFLAION IS NOT SO MUCH

F WHAT GOU HAS DONE FOR MAN |

f. ME ALTHOUGH OF LITTLE

HIS POINT AND 1S SOMAWHAT

PRE VILEGE OF LIVING IN THE
—<—<—<<——

4D HIS WIFE WHO WERE, IN THIS

US IMMEDIATELY AND

THROUGHOUT THE Year

GRADUATE SCHOOL AND WORKING IN CHURCHSS ONE McETS MANY MEN

MINISTER. WHEN HE GREET) YOU SINC ITY POURS) FROM HIM}

Te

ENJOYED A WARM AND MUTUAL RELATIONSHIP] THROUGHOUT COLLSG# AND
———— Fa

oo

—

—

BUY

ac)

|

fED AS HIGHLY AS THIS YOUNG

GRACE BEFORE A MEAL MAKE ONE STOP AND THINK AND EE ha WAS TO HIM I WENT WITH

MANY A PHOBLEM AND ONE OF THEM WAS THE ISSUE OF GOOD AND &
TOLD MB [CALVARY IS NOT WAT MN DID ] JESUS BUT WAT GOD

WITH ALL HIS RELNG IN THE SUPREMACY OF MOD AM COULD SEE

BOTH HE AND HLS Ww

DAUGHTER, SO WHEN THEY TOLD US THEY WOULD SON _HAVEA

THEY RETURN 2D TO AUG
NT

Lowi Wr iii

Te

Ir B WERS VIRY FOND OF CIITLOREN AND BM.
—_———————

yiL. ITWAS THIS MN THAT

ITS POTENTLAL DV ANY SIMWATION,

CHILD WE ALL WERE VERY JOYFUL.

AND YET THER WEA

NEWS. I AM SURE TH

m

NO

MA

BORN WILL PROBABLY NEVER SEE ADULTH(

COMPLAINTS, JUST A CASUA, STATEMENT

AND YOUNG POTEN WAS BORN. { WAS ONLY
Tek IS A BONGOLOID.

BELLI VS THAT GOOD REIGNS OVER
pice ein aide

)D LET ALONE LIVE NORMALLY,
a

[N THE MUOST OF THE OTHER

TIS EVENT, TIAT WOULD SHAKE THE FALQH OF MOST OF aS HAS DONS

Se

NOTHING TO MY FRIBND.

© sé

)

HIS JOY AND PRIDE IS NO LESS BECAUS

S HE KNOWS GOOU CAN WIN AND

muy DO = A Wi) LT i, a
ing oo ANU LAG

WAS NOT EASY, IT WAS NO’PUSHOVER. IT COST Hit

HUMILLATION, UNPEARABLE TORTURE AND THE PALN OF DEATH. HE] WON THE BATTLE AGAINST EVIL

BUT HE CARRIED WITH HIM ITS SCARS.

——s

el
pint do

ri
|
o

|

PROMISES US NO EASY BATTLE KITHER, WS, LIKE HIM, MUST EXhe PICK UP A FEW SCARS

ON THE WAY. IPF WE STRUGGLES AGAINS! EVIL WE WILL GET OUR HANDS DIRTY AND OUR CLOTHES TORN ,
aimed Se

IT {S NOT A HOPEL&S5 —

1& WILL EXPERIENCE HURT FESLINGS AND H@HILIATLION. BUT
————— -
=
AS THE CROSS WARNS THAT THE GOING WILL BS TOUG] SO THE EMPFY TOMS JOYFULLY ANNOUNCES
—— {dati

THAT THAT BATTLE CA ij WON, THS ENEMY IS NOT INVINCIBLE.

-

2 WE WA To, OUM OF EVERY CONGEIVABLS SITUA TIO! ; GAN SEE AND REALIZE THE POSSIBILITY
—$—

won

9.
BET R ke

LOT LY, THAT GOU Haw ad -

WHAT Wil, 4 Vi ~ ie OP Pet ai

Ln UAL PAL Wi WL STRUGGLE TN OUR Ow! ual, THAT HIS [BANNER SHA.L NEVER FALL.
——, — :

"FOR WHAT YOU HAVE DONE ON THE CROSS O GOD WE ARE THANKFUL, AND TO YOU AND YOUR

AL THFULNE YOUR BATTLE IS QUR BATTLE AND WE WILL MOT