Holy Trinity Ankeny

During his trial, Jesus tells Pilate he has come to testify to the truth. Pilate’s response is, “What is truth?” We live in an age when the truth is a slippery thing. Jesus, on the cross, however, reveals the truth about all the people in the story and about each one of us. Further, the cross reveals the truth about God. This is why we adore the cross on Good Friday.

On this evening, Jesus gathers with his disciples for dinner, but they received much more. Jesus does something to his disciples.  He gives them a new experience along with a new command.  Jesus shows them how to love. Not any kind of love, but how to love like Jesus. He does this through his actions of washing their feet. Jesus doesn't just stop there. Jesus will continue to live love as his beautiful feet take their final steps to the cross.  

The passion of Jesus Christ is an enactment of love. It tells us the lengths to which God will go to embrace the world and love each and all of us. The Passion of Jesus Christ is the most powerful story of the generous undertaking Jesus embraced in his death.

Listen to the full worship service broadcast for the parking lot worship gathering on March 21, 2021.

Jesus says a profound line: My soul is troubled. How does Jesus deal with the trouble in his soul? How can we deal with it when something troubles our soul?

From the beginning of time, God has been involved in the generous undertaking of giving. God gives life, grace, forgiveness, deliverance, hope because that is how God is. We too are endowed with the divine image of God, which means our lives are to be generous undertakings. For God so loved the world that he gave. We are called to the same generosity.