The Garden You Didn't Plant
When Jesus said "deny yourself, take up your cross daily, and follow me," many of us heard that as a call to quiet suffering. But...
This is tradition perspectives on discipleship, drawing on Luke 9:23.
When Jesus said "deny yourself, take up your cross daily, and follow me," many of us heard that as a call to quiet suffering. But Rachel Held Evans once reminded us that the cross was Rome's tool of execution for dissidents — people who threatened the status quo. To take it up is not passive endurance. It is active resistance.…
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