Hi, this is John, and today on Theocass, we're going to ask you a very important question.

What does it mean to take up your cross?

Many people hear this, and they think, oh, it's utter dedication to God.

If you want to be his disciple, you must sacrifice everything, including your family.

And if you're not willing to do that, you can't truly be

saved. Is that what Jesus meant when he said that? We're going to look at Luke chapter 14 and

exeat that passage and trying to look at it from a biblical, historical context and find the answer

of what does it mean to pick up your cross? We hope you enjoy.

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Welcome to Theocast, encouraging weary pilgrims to rest in Christ, conversations about the Christian life from a reformed perspective.

Your host today are Justin Purdue, Pastor of Covenant Baptist Church in Asheville, North Carolina. And I'm

John Moffitt, pastor of Grace Reform Church in Spring Hill, Tennessee, which is just south of Nashville.

Justin, we've got another giveaway for our listeners today. It's a good one, I think. What are we giving away today, my friend? Good morning, John. Good to be with you. I feel like we are not only battling the corruption of our flesh. We're also battling technology this morning. Oh my goodness. But here we are. For those of you that ask, we do not record together. We use

technology and technology often wins and we lose. It does. And we are trying to improve our

technological platforms. That's right. To make the quality better and everything else. And it has been

a labor of love. I don't know if we can call it a labor of love today or not.

I don't know if that's exactly how we felt about it.

But anyway.

So, yeah, back to the matter at hand.

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