Count the Cost of Discipleship
Count the Cost of Discipleship
Speaker: The Rev. Nathan Stomberg
Sermon given by the Rev. Nathan Stomberg on 13 Pentecost (9/4/2022).
Counterintuitive as it may sound, it is precisely the call to sacrifice which we must embrace and offer to the world today if we wish to see the church grow. People of my generation and younger especially have caught on to the façade of contemporary worship, for it is so clearly divorced from the reality of life, which is hard! Life is hardly ever holding hands and singing kumbaya, it is a daily struggle against sin, and pain, and grief, and shame. Christ delivers us from all those things, but only if we join Him in the fight.
Readings: Deuteronomy 30:15-20; Psalm 1; Philemon 1-20; Luke 14:25-33