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The Pain of Intimacy—Receiving love from a vulnerable Jesus
The story of the Last Supper, of gathering and teaching and eating and washing feet, is about our pain and fear of intimacy.
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The problem with footwashing
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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With Us Now
The point of this moment isn’t only the experience or the result. It’s the coming to engage with God’s great project together.
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Serving Others
The new word Jesus offers on Maundy Thursday is not just a holy communion in bread and wine or washing of feet, but a transcending vision of service.
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This Thursday of Holy Week
Between the Last Supper and the Passion, Jesus confronts the place of abandonment, his purpose and confusion. In the garden, we find a moment of intimacy which means so much more than we think. Tonight we’ll be gathering for our Maundy Thursday service. We’ll hear part of the story of the Last Supper from John’s…
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The Unity Table
I never know how I’m supposed to feel today. We know how we’ll feel tomorrow and then the third day. We know how we will feel. How things will be tomorrow. We feel that confusion today. There’s an anticipation to this day we call Maundy Thursday. A day in which the big story’s climax is…
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Betrayal & Desertion
The writer of Mark doesn’t condemn Judas. Not like the others. They need Judas to kill himself or bear the brunt of a Godly vengeance: the scapegoat for his betrayal. Like a true villain, more heinous than Pilate (they can’t wait to get him off the hook), more vile than the leadership Jesus spent three…
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Keeping it 100
When Jesus gathers his disciples for the Passover, Jesus does this one most radical act. No, not the Last Supper or the footwashing. What he does is treat Judas like one of the team. Like he isn’t about the betray him. The message, if we can hear it, is not only get together and eat,…