Sermons on The Cruciform Life
All Things Through Christ (Philippians 4:8-13)
Doing the Christian life means more than merely putting off the anxieties that monopolize one’s thoughts, it means replacing adverse thoughts with the spiritually advantageous; consuming the true, consuming the honorable, consuming the just/righteous/good, consuming the pure, consuming the lovely,…
From Darkness, Light (Luke 23:44-49)
And how wondrous the love and salvation of God. That He, knowing humanity couldn’t come near to Him, lest they die, knowing they couldn’t be far from him, lest they die, eagerly desired for them to know him. To love him. To be loved by him. To know the fulness of what a relationship with the Living God could be. And was willing to die the most horrific and ignominious…
Carrying the Cross of Jesus and the Good Life (Luke 23:26-34)
In this sermon, we explore how Simon of Cyrene gives us understanding into what it means to “bear our cross and follow Jesus (see Luke 9:23, 14:27).” Carrying our cross and following Jesus is the good path full of the joy that comes when we follow Jesus as servants who have been set…
Seeing the Glory of a Crucified King (Luke 18:31-43)
Jesus says that eternal life is to know (have a relationship with) him. Part of knowing God and being in a relationship with him means following Jesus. We don’t just follow the King, we follow a crucified King. To truly live the Christian life, one must follow the crucified life, being formed…
