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Due to a technical issue, the sermon video did not record Readings: Old Testament: Exodus 34:29-35 Epistle: 2 Peter 1:16-21 Holy Gospel: Matthew 17:1-9 Sermon manuscript: download Sermon: Sermon based on Matthew 17:1-9 * In the Name of the Father and of the + Son and of the Holy Spirit. Dearly beloved by the Lord: Jesus takes Peter, James, and John up a high mountain. And there, He was transfigured before them. His face shone {as} the sun, and His clothes became as white as

John tells us that, in this sign, “Jesus manifested His glory, and that His disciples believed in Him.” And, Beloved, what this reveals is that belief does not come from understanding. No, rather, it arises from gift, from abundance where there once was lack, from mercy that does not announce itself as mercy. This sign, then, does not remain at Cana. It points toward the hour of which Christ speaks, when He will pour out His sacred blood upon the Cross, and later give that sa

Beloved, things are never—never—out of His control. O, that we might remember this, that we might let these words sink and remain in our hearts: do you not know that He must be about His Father’s business? For, as it happens, His Father’s business sometimes means trouble. After all, He came to be the ransom—the Redeemer—of the world, and that means pain, suffering, and sacrificial death. The Cross: that is His Father’s business. It’s a bloody business, one chock full of grie

For you, Jesus, the Israel of God, repeats and completes the life of Moses. For you, this new and better Moses was born. For you, He fled from the sword of Herod. For you, He was called out of Egypt. For you, He was called to the Cross. For you, He suffered the whips, the thorns, and the nails: the bleeding and the dying. For you, He was called back to life. For you, He shatters the shackles of sin and death that once bound you by His grace. You, He carries out of Egypt, acro