Grace Chapel Knoxville Sermons

Today we explore the cross together. Not the cross of Jesus (that only he can carry), but the cross He calls us to take up. In 3 successive chapters in Mark’s Gospel, Jesus tells his disciples that He is about to be killed and that he will rise again 3 days later. Their reaction may be at first surprising to us, but upon further reflection reveals some of the very challenges that we face. Friends, may we hear Jesus calling us to come and die, that we may truly live! “For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?” (Mark 8:36)