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Let’s build shrines, Peter says. He doesn’t know how to respond to a mystical mountaintop experience, and he’s afraid.
The Transfiguration has a hundred sermons in it. But to me the most touching element is the subplot.
by Maggi Dawn
Sometimes preaching in a lectionary church is like being Philip in Acts 8—the Spirit plucks us up and drops us where ever she darn well pleases. It is necessarily this way, certainly. Between the thematic requirements of the seasons of the church year and the sheer length of the four Gospels spread out over 156 Sundays, there is no way we can read all four in their entirety in three years. So, we skip stuff. Especially in Year B, as we try to mash the shortest Gospel, Mark, together with the other Gospel, John, together in some supposedly coherent way.
By Steve Pankey
If Moses is any example, the pastor’s yoke was never light. He wasn’t very far into his 40-year pastorate when he learned that his flock did not feel called to provide him with constant affirmation.
If the disciples hoped before that Jesus didn't know what he was saying, these hopes are now gone.
When Jesus' disciples imitate Joshua, the irony is delicious: they have just spectacularly failed to cast out the demon troubling a boy from childhood.
The crucified and resurrected Christ becomes the standard against which to measure all accounts of wisdom.
Perhaps Jesus is too hopeful, too optimistic about these outsiders to suit our temperament.
Do not look for this mountain on a Bible map. It juts out not from the topography of Galilee, but from the topography of God.
Jesus sees something the disciples do not even know they are missing.
The Roman custom of lifting a newborn infant probably underlies Jesus’s symbolic action in Mark 9.