Transfiguration Sunday
February 23, 2020
A High Mountain Apart
Mark 9:2-9
In the transfiguration story, which lies at the epicenter of the Gospel of Mark, is halfway between Jesus' baptism and his resurrection. A voice calls him "the Beloved" and for us to listen to him. What does it mean to be on the climb of life, to be striving up and up, only to realize that we, too, are being offered to be transformed by God, and that might lead us back down the hill? Jesus invites us to look within ourselves, to see our individual timelines between birth and death, which if we let it can transport us to several mountaintop moments with God. Sometimes we react like Peter wanting to stay and build, sometimes we are left speechless out of fear, sometimes we want to rush down the mountain to get on with life, and yet every time we can explore the ways our own mountaintop experiences with God reveal to us something about the very nature of Christ. The way of the Lenten journey we will follow is a way out of comfort and complacency, through risk and groaning, all the way to resurrection.
Come and join us in worship
8 a.m. - Daybreak - informal, in the Loft
9:30 a.m. - Traditional
11:15 a.m. - Contemporary
