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Glory be to Jesus Christ! How inconvenient does your faith make your life? Every once in a while I'll turn on the "Christian Music Radio Station" on in the car, but I can only listen for a few minutes. I always feel that they have turned Christ into some sort of "coping mechanism" and it's such a reduction of the gospel message. In our reading today our Lord gives His disciples a warning which we all too often forget or ignore: if you will follow Him expect resistance. Persecution is a litmus test for discipleship. And yet, even before we are…