Taking up Crosses

What does a messiah look like anyway? I suppose your answer is going to depend on your situation, depend on what you see as the problems in your life. Messiahs solve problems and they do it with great ease. Messiahs lift burdens without seeming to have to strain themselves very much at all. Messiahs rally the troops, pull people together to get a task done.

We're all looking for one sort of messiah or another.

But what happens when the messiah you find turns out to want to deal with a different problem than the one you had in mind? What happens when that messiah seems to want to throw away all the opportunities that you can see and instead of solving the obvious problems wants you to follow in a whole other direction? What do you do?

That is the sort of scenario we find ourselves in this Sunday, the second Sunday of Lent, as Jesus talks about the suffering and rejection ahead of him.

Join us as we see how Jesus words continue to impact our lives.