A tendency is to run away from pain, and to think that wisdom is learning to recognise pain in order that we might escape it sooner and more effectively. The wisdom that we learn at the foot of the cross is that we are free to move toward pain. It is a wisdom and freedom …
Disciples of Jesus are called to follow him, taking up our cross. Because the freedom and desire to follow Jesus flow from Jesus’ own unique and unrepeatable bearing of his cross on our behalf, his invitation is a call to recognise that our burdens are real, but they are borne in the life that Jesus …
The Jesus who calls us follow him, is also the Jesus who is with us always, is the Jesus who walks alongside us, is the Jesus who calls us his friends. The same Jesus counsels us that we will have trouble in the world, and offers the comfort that he has overcome the world. From …
Discipleship is following someone to be instructed by how faith leads them to uniquely live out their calling in Jesus, so that you can by faith uniquely live out your calling in Jesus. The goal is not to simply be a carbon copy of their actions, but for your actions to reflect the same faithfulness …
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