Sunday Text

The passage for the morning services is Luke 14:25-35. The verse printed is: "If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple."

The title of the sermon is "The Cruciform Life." Have you noticed in these recent passages and chapters, the sternness of Jesus' speech? We must be ready for the return of the Master; Jesus has come to cause division within households; repent or perish; strive to enter through the narrow door; the lament over Jerusalem; none of those originally invited will taste the banquet. Let us be reminded that this business of knowing God is a serious business indeed. It is not a hobby, not a vacation. It claims every bit of us and is both exhilarating and terrifying.