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It is a Very Good Friday...
The movie the Passion of the Christ had a powerful impact on me like so many others. I grew up with a Bible that had beautiful art of important moments in the Bible. This included Easter pictures with Jesus looking so serene while on that cross.
I love those paintings even though I have come to realize Good Friday was a very brutal Friday … and though the images from the movie the Passion of the Christ are disturbing.. this was a closer picture to what Christ endured on the cross that first Good Friday.
Then being a cartoonist.. how do I draw anything that will bring a glimmer of truth to this most significant day?
Good Friday is not funny.. and my goal with these cartoons is to share a thought or an image of irony that captures an aspect of this story without making light of this great day of Amazing Grace, love, and sacrifice of our Lord Jesus Christ.
So let me present my cartoons for this Good Friday.
- Judas in total despair misses the gift of grace available even for the man who betrayed Jesus.
- The Message of the Cross (borrowed the quote from Lucado I think)
- Golgotha is the hill of redemption where the shed blood of Christ on the cross was the price of salvation for our sins.
- Jesus cries out Father Forgive Them , and the thief cries out JESUS FORGIVE ME! Both prayers were answered.
- Barabbas sweats it out in jail.
- WRONG, WRONG, and WRONG.. Pilate, Barabbas, and Satan.. they all were very mistaken.
- The Curtain is Torn .. access to God is now open for business!
- The Roman Guard could not deny the power of the moment.
- So in the end.. Who was responsible? Let’s go to the police lineup and choose from the USUAL SUSPECTS .. hey what am I doing there?
May God bless you this Good Friday, and this entire Easter weekend. May the story of Easter where Christ died for each of us, and rose from the dead impact our lives like never before. Jeff |
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