Posts from April 2026
The Sequel Nobody Expected
The Sequel Nobody Expected There’s a reason you almost never hear Mark’s Gospel read on Easter Sunday. It’s uncomfortable. Every other Gospel ties the resurrection into a satisfying ending — disciples reunited with Jesus, tears turning to joy, wounds touched with trembling hands. Matthew, Luke, and John give us the moment we’ve been waiting for. The reunion. The proof. The exhale. Mark gives us none of that. Mark 16 ends at verse 8 with three women fleeing an empty tomb…
“Unless I Wash You”
On the night before He died, Jesus did something nobody expected. He didn’t gather His disciples for a final strategy session or a farewell speech. He picked up a towel, knelt down, and washed twelve pairs of dirty feet — one by one. John tells us why: “Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.” Everything Jesus did that night — the foot washing, the bread broken, the cup poured out — flowed…