When we don’t want to listen to Jesus
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What they will deduce from the story is that Jesus’s appearance changed. And then the second sentence is: And that’s it.
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What these three disciples witness on the mountaintop is beyond most of our comprehension. And we, too, focus on the wrong things.
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In the Transfiguration, Jesus’s change frightens the disciples because the spectacle itself marks a change in their reality.
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The mountaintop event is saturated with the disciples’ confusion. And is the crux of what happens after they come down the mountain.
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We encounter the Transfiguration with our own skewed vision of the world; and our precious place in it.
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Dealing with the Transfiguration in August is very different than In February. Because we are in a different place.
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The Transfiguration is one of the most impressive, confusing, and distracting stories about Jesus in Scripture.
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The Transfiguration is not merely an event: it is a turning point in the work of teaching Jesus has been doing.