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2021/02/14 By Barry Leave a Comment

Another look at Transfiguration

Transfiguration Sunday comes around every church year. You can think of it as the last Sunday of Epiphany or the last Sunday before Lent but it comes up no matter what you think of it. This is the beauty and (sometimes) the challenge of following the Lectionary. I am grateful to all of those preaching […]

Filed Under: Epiphany, Preaching, Sunday, Year B Tagged With: preaching, Transfiguration, Transfiguration Sunday

2020/02/23 By Barry 2 Comments

Let’s talk mountains and mountaintops

 Mountaintop experiences . . . everyone has had them. Some people have even had them on the top of physical mountains. I’m not one of those people. I have never been on top of a mountain, I’ve barely been on the top of a hill. But I have had “mountaintop” experiences. “Mountaintop experiences” are the […]

Filed Under: Epiphany, Preaching, Sunday, Year A Tagged With: change, mountaintop, mountaintop experience, moutain, preaching, Transfiguration, Transfiguration Sunday, transformation

2019/03/03 By Barry 2 Comments

Glory to glory

 I was originally going to call this post “One out of two” but that didn’t really address the sermon but more my morning. So first the actual preaching bit and later I’ll talk about the morning. Today was Transfiguration Sunday or the Sunday where we celebrate The Transfiguration of Our Lord, depending on where you […]

Filed Under: Epiphany, Preaching, Sunday, Year C Tagged With: glory, Jesus, new covenant, old covenant, Paul, preaching, the Christ, Transfiguration, Transfiguration Sunday

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