“Practicing the Way: Take Up Your Cross”
Matthew 16:24-28, {24} Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. {25} For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it. {26} What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul? {27} For the Son of Man is going to come in his Father’s glory with his angels, and then he will reward each person according to what they have done. {28} “Truly I tell you, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom.”