Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

Mark 9:2-9

  • Sometimes what we see in the world isn’t real. Or more precisely, real in the way we imagine it. Because we aren’t actually listening.

  • What they will deduce from the story is that Jesus’s appearance changed. And then the second sentence is: And that’s it.

  • We don’t really know what to do with the Transfiguration. But it does remind us that sometimes we ought to shut up.

  • Listen

    In the Transfiguration, we get the big spectacle event, so consuming with visual, power, and misunderstanding, we might fail to hear the voice in the middle of it all saying “listen to him.” Are we listening to Jesus any better than the disciples? Epiphany Last B | Mark 9:2-9 The story doesn’t begin at the…