Undeterred

Most of us have spent considerable energy arranging our lives to avoid predictable conflict. We soften convictions, delay difficult conversations, and quietly take the long way around trouble we can see coming. Yet here is Jesus, three days from Jerusalem, telling His closest followers in specific detail what the city holds: the betrayal, the condemnation, the mocking, the flogging, the cross, and walking straight toward it. What kind of person does that, and what does it mean for the people He calls to follow Him?

This week, we will discover what Christ's resolute advance toward certain suffering reveals about the nature of kingdom obedience and what it demands of those who bear His name.