Transfiguration: Amazing Then and Now
     Imagine what would happen if someone from the days of Jesus were suddenly transported to our present. How would someone accustomed to walking everywhere respond to driving in a car at top speed, let alone flying in a jet? How would someone who spends their life depending on—at best—oil lamps for light respond to electric lights? It is fun to muse at how people might respond, as we reflect on how sophisticated we are.  
   Now imagine if the scene were reversed. How would someone accustomed to understanding much in the world around them respond to an event as otherworldly as the transfiguration? We understand volcanoes and the northern lights. We can explain lightning and thunder. We know about germs and disease transmission. So what would we do when confronted with something so amazing, awesome, and unexplainable?
     The transfiguration is one of those ancient events that still puzzle us. What really happened to Jesus that day? Since we cannot go back to that time, we are left to speculate. We take stabs in the dark and make educated guesses, but at the end of the day we are left with a holy mystery to ponder.
     Whatever happened that day, there is a timeless spiritual reality behind the physical details Mark gives us. God sometimes uses extreme and amazing methods to transform us when we open ourselves to the Holy Spirit. God's spirit transfigured Jesus then. That same Spirit is still transforming people today. We don't have to explain first-century miracles to trust that God's transforming Spirit is timeless and at work within each of us today. We do not have to understand everything to see the beauty of God at work in the world, continually transfiguring us into the people we were created to be.

February, 2012
Worship Services

5th  5th Sunday after Epiphany
    8:00 a.m. – Spoken Holy Comm
    9:00 a.m. - Sun Sch  Breakfast   10:30 a.m. – Holy Communion

12th  6th Sunday after Epiphany
    8:00 a.m. – Spoken Holy Comm
    9:00 a.m. – Sunday School
  10:30 a.m. – Worship- Boy Scouts

19th
    8:00 a.m. – Spoken Holy Comm
    9:00 a.m. – Sunday School
  10:30 a.m. – Holy Communion

22nd 
    7:30p.m. –Holy Communion

26th  1st  Sunday in Lent
    8:00 a.m. – Spoken Holy Comm
    9:00 a.m. – Sunday School
  10:30 a.m. – Worship

   29th          
Midweek  Service 1
      6:00p.m. – Supper
      6:30p.m. – Bible Study
      7:30p.m. – Worship – Chapel

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