Tag: Matthew 17:1-9

  • The Transfiguration of Our Lord (Historic)

    The Transfiguration of Our Lord (Historic)

    Readings: Exodus 34:29-35 | 2 Peter 1:16-21 | Matthew 17:1-9 Text: Matthew 17:1-9 Everyone hopes for heaven on earth. What can we do to hasten its arrival? What’s the “secret sauce” that nobody before has managed to discover, or how can I adjust my living so that I can be free of want? The twentieth…

  • The Transfiguration of Our Lord

    The Transfiguration of Our Lord

    Readings: Exodus 34:29-35 | 2 Peter 1:16-21 | Matthew 17:1-9 Text: Matthew 17:1-9 I. The Transfiguration can best be understood in light of the cross, comparing the different features. Our desire is to stay at the Transfiguration because we’ve “arrived.” a. Immediately before, six days before, Jesus told His disciples, “Truly, I say to you,…

  • The Transfiguration of Our Lord

    The Transfiguration of Our Lord

    Readings: Exodus 34:29–35 | 2 Peter 1:16–21 | Matthew 17:1-9 Text: Matthew 17:1-9 There was a temptation for Peter, James, John, and the disciples to think of Jesus as merely human.  True, they had seen His miracles, and heard Him call Himself the end-times “Son of Man.”[1]  But they also knew His mother and family,…

  • Transfiguration of Our Lord (Matthew 17:1-9, 2 Peter 1:16-21)

    Transfiguration of Our Lord (Matthew 17:1-9, 2 Peter 1:16-21)

    Bethlehem Lutheran Church & Bethel Lutheran Church, Lebanon and Sweet Home, OR Transfiguration of Our Lord + January 21, 2018 Text: Matthew 17:1-9, 2 Peter 1:16-21 The Transfiguration is vindication for all the Old Testament saints, here represented by Moses and Elijah.  Both of them had moments of vindication during their ministry:   Moses when…