There’s not a one of us without good intentions. Most don’t wake up and say, “I’d like to do all the wrong things today.” No. We awake, if even discouraged, with the hope that things might go better today than yesterday. The stakes are getting quite high with the

Jesus movement. Tensions are up. It seems some triumph or test or difficult engagement is on the horizon. The team knows it and they’re talking about it. But Peter, confident as ever, says, “My intentions are good and my actions will back ‘em up.” But against his best intentions, even Peter stumbles. What do we do when our hopes fall away?

Death is universal. It finds us all at some point or another. A young mother experienced the tragic death of her four year old son and later said, “The other tragedy is that we waste the pain.” We can’t avoid death. We find a way through it. We find a way to redeem it so that we don’t waste the pain. Join us on this Friday called “Good.” Hear four accounts of

crucified hope and sing the familiar choruses of the cross. As reminder of our mortality and even the death of Jesus himself, we end this night in the dust, just as we began on Ash Wednesday, in sure and certain hope of the resurrection.