{"id":1452,"date":"2026-04-03T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.watotochurch.com\/sermon\/?p=1452"},"modified":"2026-04-06T14:50:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T14:50:01","slug":"empowered-for-the-cross-good-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.watotochurch.com\/sermon\/?p=1452","title":{"rendered":"Empowered For The Cross (Good Friday)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ps. Julius Rwotlonyo<br>When Jesus breathed His last, the thick temple curtain was torn from top to bottom. The barrier between God and humanity was removed forever. This is why we call it\u00a0<strong>Good Friday<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_8853\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1452-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/watoto_church_audio_sermons\/www.watotochurch.com\/audio\/3Apr26_GoodFriday.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/watoto_church_audio_sermons\/www.watotochurch.com\/audio\/3Apr26_GoodFriday.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/watoto_church_audio_sermons\/www.watotochurch.com\/audio\/3Apr26_GoodFriday.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/watoto_church_audio_sermons\/www.watotochurch.com\/audio\/3Apr26_GoodFriday.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.watotochurch.com\/sermon\/?powerpress_pinw=1452-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/watoto_church_audio_sermons\/www.watotochurch.com\/audio\/3Apr26_GoodFriday.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"3Apr26_GoodFriday.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.watotochurch.com\/sermon\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ps. Julius RwotlonyoWhen Jesus breathed His last, the thick temple curtain was torn from top to bottom. The barrier between God and humanity was removed forever. This is why we call it\u00a0Good Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-julius-rwotlonyo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watotochurch.com\/sermon\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watotochurch.com\/sermon\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watotochurch.com\/sermon\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watotochurch.com\/sermon\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watotochurch.com\/sermon\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.watotochurch.com\/sermon\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1453,"href":"https:\/\/www.watotochurch.com\/sermon\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1452\/revisions\/1453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watotochurch.com\/sermon\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watotochurch.com\/sermon\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watotochurch.com\/sermon\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}