Jesus is not after passive surrender. The cross was his instrument of world salvation, so to take it up means actively devoting your life...

When I was in middle school, I got to meet Michael Jordan. At the height of his fame, he came to a local golf tournament, and my best...

For the first Christians who heard, “Take up your cross” (Luke 9:23), it was not poetic or symbolic language; it was quite literal....

There are a number of more liberal theologians today who buck against the idea that Jesus’ death on the cross was a necessary payment for...

Very few people debate whether Jesus died. It’s why he died that causes the debate. Mahatma Gandhi wrote in his 1894 autobiography, “I...

I recently read a rather bizarre account of a lawsuit, filed in 1970 by an Arizona lawyer named Russel Tansie. The house of Tansie’s...