Have you ever wondered why we call the Friday of Jesus’ Crucifixion Good Friday? Why was Jesus Christ hung from a cross rather than executed differently?

As I understand the scriptures and teachers of the scriptures, God had planned Jesus’ death as the ultimate sacrifice for the sins of all mankind from the beginning of time to the end of time (Acts 2:23; 1 Peter 1:19). I am also of the realization that God was in absolute control of everything that was happening that put Jesus in the hands of the Romans (Mark 10:45).

Most of us like to hear a good fishing story. In the morning, when Peter had come back from fishing all night without catching a single fish and was washing his net, Jesus came along and told Peter to go back out and set his net again.

Now Peter was a professional fisherman. He, like all commercial fishermen of his day, knew the best time to fish was during the night. Why is a carpenter telling a professional fisherman that he should go back out during the day and fish?

When I was a young child, I had an interesting experience I would like to share that I hope will encourage you. I really didn’t know the Lord like I do now and like all 5-year-olds, was easily influenced by events in my daily life. 

I was a kindergartener and lived a short two block walk from the grade school I attended. I enjoyed kindergarten school, my teacher and of course all the students in my class. What my teacher taught me back then helped my ability to learn and find something new each day for the rest of my life