St. Luke's United Methodist Church - Houston, Texas
How To Be Blessed
Aug 30, 2026 · 27 min · 8 segments
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St. Luke's United Methodist Church - Houston, Texas
Aug 30, 2026 · 27 min · 8 segments
In that ancient world, folks' feet were not all that dissimilar to junior high boys.
There were no roads, and folks traveled around on dirt often, and so feet were often the most unclean, the dirtiest part of the body.
And so in the same way that we wash hands, it was customary for folks, typically a servant or typically the kind of lowest person in the totem pole, It's customary for them to wash the feet of guests or others who would come to the household.
It's easy for us to miss how deeply Jesus was operating with a different set of convictions.
If you've got your scripture with you and open or in your bulletin there, if you want to turn to the scripture, I want to show you something.
And so see that there, that all things had been given into his hands.
All things are in his hand.
The fullness of divinity is there.
There we go.
He got up from the table and he was going to God or he took off the outer robe and he tied a towel around himself and then he poured water into a basin.
If you miss this, you miss the sermon.
It'll be on the test.
All things are in his hands.
pauses to serve and to wash the feet of his disciples.
Now again, it's easy for us to miss because sometimes we kind of moralize Jesus, right? We make him this nice guy, and it's easy for us to think, you know, maybe he was just doing something nice for his disciples, right? Disciple Appreciation Sunday was coming up, and he forgot to run to Barings to get him a nice gift, and so he thought, oh, I should really do something nice for him.
They've been journeying with me all this time, and Peter cooks all of our meat.
In that ancient world, folks' feet were not all that dissimilar to junior high boys.
There were no roads, and folks traveled around on dirt often, and so feet were often the most unclean, the dirtiest part of the body.
And so in the same way that we wash hands, it was customary for folks, typically a servant or typically the kind of lowest person in the totem pole, It's customary for them to wash the feet of guests or others who would come to the household.
It's easy for us to miss how deeply Jesus was operating with a different set of convictions.
If you've got your scripture with you and open or in your bulletin there, if you want to turn to the scripture, I want to show you something.
And so see that there, that all things had been given into his hands.
All things are in his hand.
The fullness of divinity is there.
There we go.
He got up from the table and he was going to God or he took off the outer robe and he tied a towel around himself and then he poured water into a basin.
If you miss this, you miss the sermon.
It'll be on the test.
All things are in his hands.
pauses to serve and to wash the feet of his disciples.
Now again, it's easy for us to miss because sometimes we kind of moralize Jesus, right? We make him this nice guy, and it's easy for us to think, you know, maybe he was just doing something nice for his disciples, right? Disciple Appreciation Sunday was coming up, and he forgot to run to Barings to get him a nice gift, and so he thought, oh, I should really do something nice for him.
They've been journeying with me all this time, and Peter cooks all of our meat.
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