[Propertalk] Feb. 14 sermon pointers - Luke 9 - Part 6

[Joe Parrish]

...the real impact of the narrative is that something happened on the mountain that the Gospel writers use as a window into the unfolding of Jesus' ministry. Especially as we see this event in the context of Jesus' first teachings about his approaching death, we realize that the Gospel writers are recounting this event from the perspective and the culmination of Jesus' ministry at another hill where he would die. 

http://www.cresourcei.org/lectionary/YearC/Ctransfignt.html

Dennis Bratcher
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The congregation here is having a Capital Funds Campaign Commitment Sunday for the raising of a shelter/temple in this community. Interestingly, it is going to be located at the bottom of a hill. Perhaps we might yet see that Christ's glory is enough without monuments to it and that the mission outpost or hospitable hospital image might yet be ours.

http://kcmlection.blogspot.com/2007/02/transfiguration-sunday-c4.html

Wesley White
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Sometimes we are afraid of 'losing face,' of being made to appear bad before others. In the Philippines smooth interpersonal relationships (SIR) have a very high value which often makes us hide our true feelings to avoid offending others. We can wear the smile that covers the pain. We can wear a mask. While wearing a mask may sometimes be socially necessary it is very unhealthy as a permanent condition. The word sincere come from the Latin words sine and cera, which mean without wax. It comes from the time when actors wore masks made of wax to cover their true faces. Hiding our true selves not only makes us false people but also makes us sick people. It can cause high blood pressure, asthma, ulcers as well as headaches and allergies. 
St. Luke tells us in today's Gospel that as Jesus prayed on Mount Tabor 'the aspect of his face was changed.' He was transfigured before the eyes of his three disciples and they were overcome with joy. This was to be a beautiful memory that would sustain them in the more difficult times ahead. The face Jesus showed on Tabor was indeed a very special one but not his only one. Christ had all the faces that we have, except the false ones. 

http://www.bible.claret.org/liturgy/daily/sundays_pierse/cycleC/C_2ndSunLent.htm

Gerry Pierse
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We Christians may not be immune from the stresses of future promise. But, we have a unique perspective on the future. We look forward to God's will and the coming of the Lord in glory through the eyes of a faith two millennia old. We are, in effect, looking at the future through a rearview mirror. Such a view should not blind us to the possibilities of the future. It should just give our view perspective.

http://www.word-sunday.com/Files/c/2Lent-c/A-2Lent-c.html

Larry Broding 
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I need to put my agenda aside and listen to the lives of others. God often speaks in the voices of others, especially through whom I might least expect to hear Him.  He speaks through children, the aged, the infirmed and the incarcerated.  He speaks through the weak, the poor, the dying and the mentally handicapped.  Our problem is that these people are out of the mainstream of our lives.  They are not written on the pages of our consumer-based day planners.  We don't pen in a visit with the sick, or to feed the hungry and raise the dead even though Christ made this a priority in the lives of his disciples.

http://onefamilyoutreach.com/bible/Luke/lk_09_28-36.html

Jerry Goebel
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I think it was something he learned on the mountain, when light burst through all his seams and showed him what he was made of. It was something he never forgot. If we have been allowed to intrude on that moment, it is because someone thought we might need a dose of glory too, to get us through the night. Some people are lucky enough to witness it for themselves, although like Peter, James and John, very few of them will talk about it later.

http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=639

Barbara Brown Taylor, 1998
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The question is urgent in a post-Holocaust Holocaust world. Although racial anti-Semitism is by no means the same as Christian anti-Semitism, centuries of anti-Judaism tilled the soil in which Nazi anti-Semitism took root and flourished. Contemporary Christians need to acknowledge that something went wrong when the pain of the first-century split between synagogue and church was passed to subsequent generations. When political power was added to one side of that ancient argument, the teaching of contempt shaped an entire culture. If the teaching of contempt is an essential element of Christianity, then it is morally untenable to be a Christian after the Holocaust. But I do not believe this to be the case. Supersessionism is not an essential element in Christian teaching and self-understanding. The polemics of the split were time-conditioned and are therefore revisable.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1058/is_n5_v112/ai_16607539/

Darrell Jodock, 1995
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