Be yourself! The idea of being true to ourselves is an easy one to talk about. It’s far more difficult to successfully accomplish. Peer pressure doesn’t end after high school. The crowd doesn’t stop pressuring the individual in college. I will soon be 36 years of age and the crowd still goes one way and I still travel the opposite direction. I’ve become better over the years at being myself. Years of practice and perseverance and prayer and overcoming have led me to a better version of myself. Life has been an excellent adventure so far.

Jesus was a rebel and Christianity is a rebellious faith. It takes a rebel’s courage to take up one’s cross to follow Christ. Christ taught that people should lose their lives for the sake of Him and the gospel story in order to save their lives. A walk of faith was everything except for…