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Transfiguration of Our Lord

09 Saturday Feb 2013

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2 Corinthians, Exodus, faith, faith and belief, lectionary, Luke, religion, spirituality, theology, Transfiguration

Exodus 34:29-35 (NRSV)

Tomorrow is the Transfiguration of Our Lord.  I can see why this particular passage was chosen.  Moses coming down from Horeb bringing the Testimony, or better known as the 10 Commandments to give to the people.  Moses’ shining face reminds me of how people glow from the inside out.  It’s just one of those things.  It shows you that what’s important is what’s inside, not what’s outside (even though our culture might think otherwise).

2 Corinthians 3:12-4:2 (NRSV)

The beginning of this section reminds me of Garrison Keillor’s Prairie Home Companion and his section about the residences of the fictional town of Lake Wobegone.  Be bold!  God wants us to be bold in our declarations of who He is and what He is about.  As long as we are in His presence we never have to fear that the glow that Moses’ had (and that we have) will never dim.  Moses probably wore the veil so that the people never had to witness the dimming of the glow that God produced in him just from being in His presence.

Luke 9:28-43a (NRSV)

Peter, Peter, Peter.  You gotta love him.  He’s the everyman of the Gospels.  Better yet, he had an active case of foot-n-mouth disease.  Open mouth and insert foot.  He’d blurt out the first thing that came to mind when he was shocked.  But aren’t we like that?  And then when it comes to tearing down mountains.  It’s figuratively.  We love to make mountains out of mole hills.  Those are the mountains that God is trying to teach us to level.  In the process, we develop the same thing that Peter had.  Blurt out the first thing just to be able to deal with the sight in front of him.  The best thing I can think of to maybe change one’s thinking is to always remember to: never sweat the small stuff, and that everything is small stuff.

4th Sunday of Easter

29 Sunday Apr 2012

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Acts 4:5-12 (HCSB)

What an amazing transformation has come over Peter.  Peter the one who always stumbled is now proclaiming boldly to the religious leadership of the day of his faith and belief.  Even in the end the members of the Sanhedrin couldn’t help but state that his change is because he had been with Jesus.  Can others say that about us?

1 John 3:16-24 (HCSB)

Love God and love one another.  That’s the main concern in this section of John’s first letter.  The thing is, when we love one another, it should be more than the people we like.  Think of it this way, God gave His Son for a world that was unlovable.  The least we could do is to care for everyone around us.

John 10:11-18 (HCSB)

In John’s gospel we come to the Good Shepherd passage.  We are God’s possession and takes care of us, not the hired hand.  And if we know that, there is a relief that we don’t have to worry about everything to the minute detail, because everything will work out in the end.

Second Sunday in Lent

03 Saturday Mar 2012

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Genesis 17:1-7 (NASB)

This week we have another one of the Covenants between God and man.  This particular one is with Abraham, where God official changed his name and also the foretelling of Isaac’s birth.  We always need to remember that nothing is impossible when God is in control, and He will keep His promises.

Romans 4:13-25 (NASB)

Seeing the passage in Romans, Paul reminds the reader that it’s not about rules and regulations, but about faith and belief.  The legalists want everyone to follow the rules.  I don’t doubt that the rules do give us comfort, because we know what we can and cannot do within the confines of them, but at the same time we’re free from those restrictions.

Mark 8:31-38 (NASB)

This passage reminds me of Foust where he sold his soul to the Devil.  You never hear people say at the end of their life that they wanted to earn more money or acquire more “toys”.  It’s always the emotional side, where people wanted to be with their family and friends.  God does want us to enjoy our friends and have a good time, but not at the expense of knowing Him and learning more about Him.

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