Take up your cross: A Holy Week blog to feed the soul

Appropriate words for Holy Week from our friends at the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship…

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The Transforming Center is a community of Christian men and women focused on transforming Christian leaders so that churches and communities of faith can become places of authentic spiritual formation and transformation. Through retreats, events and resources, the Transforming Center seeks to strengthen and equip Christian leaders to be well with their soul and lead transformational ministries. transforming-center

One of the resources that the Center provides is a blog that follows the lectionary and Christian year. Within this Holy Week, Rev. Canon Patrick P. Augustine shares his thoughts on Mark 8:34 “If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.”

Augustine writes:
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The cross means different things to different people these days. For some, it is a piece of jewelry. For others it is a sign and symbol of their commitment to Christ or their call to ordained ministry. For…

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