From Dust, Not For Dust | The Rev. Derek Axelson

A sermon on John 13, the foot washing on Maundy Thursday. Dcn. Derek shares a memory from his time as a high school camp at the end of beach day, cleaning sand off first-grade boys' feet. Jesus washes the dust off the disciples' feet to undo Genesis 3's "dust to dust" curse, then commands them to wash one another's feet and pass that liberation on. He does both before the cross, preparing them to follow him there. Drawing on Romanian Orthodox theologian Dumitru Stăniloae, who spent years in a Stalinist prison and emerged delighting in sunlight and bread, the Dcn. Derek asks us to consider who Jesus is calling us to serve, the person we have been avoiding, the work we have left undone?

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