Sermons

Good Friday 2026 Welcome: Good evening, church family. I am so glad that you are here at Eastern Shore Baptist Church on this sacred Good Friday. Tonight, we gather to remember. Roughly two thousand years ago historians tell us that Jesus hung on a cross. He was crucified as a common criminal. He had been tried, convicted, tortured, hands nailed to wooden crossbar and feet nailed to a vertical beam. Jesus hung naked, dehydrated, bloody and beaten for six hours. The last 3 hours of the ordeal was marked with supernatural darkness that fell across the land. Jesus died. We know that Jesus died because the Biblical narratives all claim the same thing. Jesus is dead. We also know that Jesus died because of extra Biblical, non Christian contemporary historians reported that Jesus had died. We know that Jesus gave up His Spirit on Friday. This day is marked throughout history as Good Friday. We call it “good” only because we know the rest of the story. However, for Jesus’ followers, thi...