Maundy Thursday Thoughts

For some reason, I always love our Maundy Thursday service. The liturgy is beautiful, and the readings are amazing. I have preached at this service, and listened to other really good preachers preach at this service, and I am pretty sure the sermon needs to go. I think the act of foot washing, essentially reencating the gospel text is more than enough. The other observation is that the John reading is a great place to turn for the wedding of both doctrine and embodiment. We are all aware of the embodiment piece, but there is this great nugget, "Jesus, knowing, that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from and was going to God, got up from the table, took off his outer robe, and tied a towel around himself." (Jn 13:3-4) I guess if you were going to preach you could preach something on that relationship.