Do you know the origin of Black Friday?  In today’s contentious climate it could be a dog whistle, triggering who-knows-what. But it’s a marketing ploy -- the day of the year when a retailer goes from red P&L numbers to profitable black ones.  Black Friday is positive, not pejorative.  Sellers rake in a windfall; shoppers pocket the year’s best deals.

Another famous Friday has an equally confusing name.  Good Friday commemorates history’s most heinous act:  nailing our own Creator to a wooden cross, left naked and bleeding to die a hideous death.  Yet, ironically, Good Friday marks mankind’s most profitable transaction, i.e., trading our sins for God’s forgiveness.

Attention, shoppers! Is this Blue Light Special in your shopping cart today?  Sale ends soon.


“For sin pays its wage – death, but God’s free gift is eternal life in union with Christ Jesus our Lord.”  Romans 6:23