Lectionary blog: Absorbing the Transfiguration
The important question is what did the disciples say they saw?
Weekly reflections and insights grounded in the lectionary to support preaching and study.
The important question is what did the disciples say they saw?
It’s about being a servant people invited to share God with the world.
It’s an agenda that means we need to be making a difference now.
But we can become too focused on ourselves, meeting our own needs.
And it’s all a mystery and a miracle why God calls us, any of us.
To know God is to know the riches of God’s grace lavished on us.
Be grateful for Jesus Christ and for all that he has done for us.
The Scripture lessons loudly assert the real presence of a real God.
We also need repentance, which leads to a change in direction.
Church, if done right, reminds us of things we’d rather not think about.
It can be an Advent sign of God’s ongoing activity in the world.
“What is God like?” and also “What is godlike?”
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