Take up your cross and embrace the bad

Modern TV preachers often want Christianity to sound like a lifetime in Disneyland.  Follow Jesus and life will be a self-indulgent pleasure ride.  But one of the greatest - and perhaps the absolute greatest - teachings of Christianity is rather negative.  Jesus said: “If any of you wants to be my follower, you must give up your own way, take up your cross, and follow me."  We must be willing to live by that command.  We look at what this means in the daily life of a committed Christian.