30 August 2026

Then Jesus told his disciples, If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. Matthew 16:24

Greetings in the name of Jesus!

Taking up our cross does not mean the denial of life or of all that is good right and salutary in the world – it is still God’s world – but the denial of the self that is bend on its own destruction. Follow me – says Jesus – because He blazed the way from suffering and death to the fullness of life. He is the way the truth and the life and, once we get back in line, once Jesus resets our minds on the things of God, we can see how the self, being a “fat relentless ego” must be denied and pinned to the cross to die so that we may live in God’s wholeness or integrity.

Peace to you!

Pastor Jaime