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Jesus ‘set his face’ toward Jerusalem (Luke 9:51, NRSV); that’s what our Lenten worship series will be all about this year. And what does that mean … to ‘set your face’? It means to determine to do something—to do something deliberately, with no chance involved. Whatever you’re determined to do, to ‘set your face’ to, you mean to do just that; in other words, it’s deliberate… For Jesus, it was ‘setting his face’ toward Jerusalem—going up to Jerusalem (since it’s located on a mountain) … and all that that meant....