The Love of the Master: Cross-Shaped Love

In this second of four sermons exploring the nature of love, we look at the middle phase of Jesus' ministry, his hard teachings, and his call to discipleship: self-denial, cross-bearing, and keeping our eyes fixed on him. This vision of love is so different than our culture's, and though self-denial is never self-loathing, we must do the work to see that Jesus' love has no room for patterns of self-preservation. Jesus does all he can to show us that the only way to life, to ongoing resurrection, is through the way of daily self-less giving.