Mar 3, 2019
Transfigured for our Transformation (3/3/19)
On this Transfiguration Sunday in our gospel lesson we see the Glory of the Lord in the person of Jesus Christ revealed before the very eyes of Peter, James, and John on a mountain in Galilee. We hear about Moses and Elijah, and how they are representative of the Law and the Prophets and how the whole of Scripture points to Jesus Christ and the Gospel. In Christ, we see the fulfillment of all the promises of God. Through Jesus, we have the victory over sin, death, and the devil and have certain Hope of life eternal.
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- Mar 3, 2019Transfigured for our Transformation (3/3/19)
Mar 3, 2019Transfigured for our Transformation (3/3/19)On this Transfiguration Sunday in our gospel lesson we see the Glory of the Lord in the person of Jesus Christ revealed before the very eyes of Peter, James, and John on a mountain in Galilee. We hear about Moses and Elijah, and how they are representative of the Law and the Prophets and how the whole of Scripture points to Jesus Christ and the Gospel. In Christ, we see the fulfillment of all the promises of God. Through Jesus, we have the victory over sin, death, and the devil and have certain Hope of life eternal.
- Feb 17, 2019Blessing and Woe (2/17/19)
Feb 17, 2019Blessing and Woe (2/17/19)Our epistle reading in St. Pauls 1st letter to the Corinthian church illustrates a fictional alternative history story. He asks the question "if Christ has not been raised?" then pictures a world where your faith is futile and you are still in your sins". Much like that old Jimmy Stewart film, It's A Wonderful Life, where George Baily sees a world in which he was never born where his many small kindnesses never took place. We are asked to look at a world without a risen Savior, and the bleakness of Bedford Falls does not even compare to a world without our risen Savior, a world without forgiveness, no resurrection of the dead, and no hope. St. Paul asks us to imagine this alternate history, so that we, just as George did in that old movie. we see more clearly what we actually do have and the blessings that we have been given. "But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead" We have the forgiveness of our sins and the sure hope of the resurrection of our bodies just like our Lord and Savior. Thanks be to God!