Take Up Your Cross

Every night, a little boy’s mother sat on the edge of his bed and read him the story of someone who had died for Jesus. Some were burned at the stake or thrown to animals in Roman arenas, and others were missionaries killed by the very people they’d gone to save. When she closed the book, she asked him the same question she always asked. Would you have stayed faithful? He was five years old, and he knew what answer she wanted.

Take Up Your Cross is the true story of that boy,…