St. Patrick Presbyterian Church, Epc

So, the most eventful, meaningful week in human history begins this Sunday as we celebrate Palm Sunday. Jesus enters Jerusalem to a hero’s welcome. It also starts the plot to finally arrest and crucify Jesus as a religious subversive and blasphemer. It is curious to me how quickly the tide can turn, as it does between the next two Sundays when the same crowd that was waving palm branches and saying, “Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!” is yelling, “Crucify him, crucify him,” and are spitting on him. And so, we find ourselves this Sunday ironically talking about Jesus washing the disciples’ feet. We finish up our series on serving by looking at Jesus washing the feet of his disciples. It is shocking really. Feet have always had a certain stigma about them. I mean, even when I did a wedding where the bride and groom washed each other’s feet, I cringed. Really! I was close––I was right there––but to do this publicly was almost too much. These f