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....
As we approach the New Year together, I want you to be thinking ahead to the year 2015. I know that, during this New Year, there are a lot of things you can do … and many things you will do, but I also know … there’s one thing you must do—you’ve got to do! And it’s ‘that one thing’ that I want to talk to you about today. Now, ‘that one thing’ is going to be different for all of us. It’ll be based on what’s going on in...
Destination matters, doesn’t it? I’ll never forget the first vacation we had as a family to Florida. My dad had just purchased some property down there in a little town called ‘Intercession City’ (yes, named after those involved in intercessory prayer). It was about 15 minutes from the front gate of Disney World. So, we were all excited—off on an adventure… The way we traveled when all us kids were young was … we camped. That was the least expensive housing we could find on the road in those days,...
