I have always enjoyed that CBS News segment, "On The Road With Charles Kuralt." He takes us to out-of-the-way places like Bethlehem, Georgia; Farmington, Iowa; and Old Town, Maine. He shows us a piece of Americana, and helps us understand ourselves.

So, on the Sundays between now and Easter I want us to go on the road with Jesus of Nazareth be on the roads Jesus traveled in order that we would see him more clearly and understand more nearly what it is we are to do.

The first road I want us to travel is the road to the wilderness. William Barclay, that great Bible scholar, said that when John the Baptist summoned people to the Jordan river Jesus went there also because he "knew that for him the hour had struck." Something happened in the mind of Jesus that enabled him to know that now was…