Scripture has several stories that revolve around things happening at the top of a mountain. The Lectionary talks about two such stories this Sunday, one in the Old Testament and one in the New. In Exodus we read about Moses spending days and days on a mountain with God. In Matthew we read about Jesus, […]
Transfiguration for everyone
The blog title is just a hair flippant, which shouldn’t surprise anyone really, but it is trying to get across part of what I was preaching about today. Today is Transfiguration Sunday in the church year and it all revolves around the story of the Transfiguration of Jesus on a mountain. He was there with […]
A new perspective on a very familiar story
The story of the Transfiguration is very familiar to almost every one in a Christian church. The bare bones are that Jesus went up on a mountain with three of his disciples and while he was there Moses and Elijah came and visited Jesus and God the Father said, “This is my Son, the Beloved; […]