NOTE FROM PASTOR JR FOR TRANSIGURATION SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2022
This Sunday is the last Sunday of the Epiphany Season. Liturgically, it is called “Transfiguration Sunday.” It is also the last Sunday of Black History Month. And, it will be the final sermon in my Epiphany Series, “The Ways of Steadfast Love.”
The Transfiguration of Jesus occurs on a mountain, and it was a mountaintop experience also for the 3 disciples with Jesus. Too often we fail to grasp God’s purpose for the mountaintop experiences we have. The story in Luke’s Gospel that follows Jesus’ transfiguration is the key to us understanding the mountaintop experience the followers of Christ have in life. Right after Jesus and the 3 disciples came off the mountain and down into the valley, they found a boy who was having epileptic seizures. The boy’s parents were upset and worried about the desperately sick boy, and the little boy fell into a fire and burned himself. They appealed to Jesus to heal their son and Jesus did. And the last verse says, “And all were astounded at the greatness of God.” (v.43a)
In Jesus’ transfiguration on the mountain and His healing the boy in the valley, we see Jesus living out the example for us of how “The Ways of Steadfast Love,” are intended to operate in our lives. Jesus and the disciples came off that mountaintop experience right back into the valley of the problems of real lives that need to be transformed.
It demonstrates that the mountaintop experiences are designed to transfigure our lives into transformational lives, so that we with our transformational lives, will be vessels of God’s using to transform other lives. This Sunday, I will share in the final sermon in this series, the example of a person among our Covenant Family, whose “Transformational Life” has transformed many other lives.
Join us for worship IN-PERSON, by Zoom or Facebook livestream. My sermon is “Transformational Lives, Transforms Lives,” based on II Corinthians 3:23, 17-18, 4:1-2 and Luke 9:28-36, 43a.
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