The problem with footwashing
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When Jesus washes the feet of his disciples on Maundy Thursday, he is showing them the kind of grace that we’re still afraid of.
Sermons, homilies, meditations, and reflections on the art of preaching.
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When Jesus washes the feet of his disciples on Maundy Thursday, he is showing them the kind of grace that we’re still afraid of.
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To understand what we’re doing. Learn how to love. Be the person God is calling me to be. Expecting things to just be different.
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In seeking Jesus, we see people at their most invested. In clamoring for power and preserving status, we see us at our least.
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Jesus offers Nicodemus a new way of seeing the world and a new life. Our attempts to make new life easy strip it of its true substance.
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In all of the order of the Temple, we struggle to see the mess underneath; why things need to change; and even what to do about it.
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The return of temptation is a reminder of what our resistance to temptation is really about. Keeping faith in a life full of hope.
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Mark doesn’t tell us what is tempting Jesus in the wilderness. But we know what it is about. Because we know what tempts us.
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When we gather together, placing ashes on our foreheads to remember our mortality, we join a very public and common witness.