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<DIV><FONT size=4>...the real impact of the narrative is that something happened
on the mountain that the Gospel writers use as a window into the unfolding of
Jesus’ ministry. Especially as we see this event in the context of Jesus’ first
teachings about his approaching death, we realize that the Gospel writers are
recounting this event from the perspective and the culmination of Jesus’
ministry at another hill where he would die. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4><A
href="http://www.cresourcei.org/lectionary/YearC/Ctransfignt.html">http://www.cresourcei.org/lectionary/YearC/Ctransfignt.html</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Dennis Bratcher</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>The congregation here is having a Capital Funds Campaign
Commitment Sunday for the raising of a shelter/temple in this community.
Interestingly, it is going to be located at the bottom of a hill. Perhaps we
might yet see that Christ's glory is enough without monuments to it and that the
mission outpost or hospitable hospital image might yet be ours.<BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4><A
href="http://kcmlection.blogspot.com/2007/02/transfiguration-sunday-c4.html">http://kcmlection.blogspot.com/2007/02/transfiguration-sunday-c4.html</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Wesley White</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Sometimes we are afraid of 'losing face,' of being made to
appear bad before others. In the Philippines <B>smooth interpersonal
relationships</B> (SIR) have a very high value which often makes us hide our
true feelings to avoid offending others. We can wear the smile that covers the
pain. We can wear a mask. While wearing a mask may sometimes be socially
necessary it is very unhealthy as a permanent condition. The word sincere come
from the Latin words sine and cera, which mean without wax. It comes from the
time when actors wore masks made of wax to cover their true faces. Hiding our
true selves not only makes us false people but also makes us sick people. It can
cause high blood pressure, asthma, ulcers as well as headaches and allergies.
<BR>St. Luke tells us in today's Gospel that as Jesus prayed on Mount Tabor 'the
aspect of his face was changed.' He was transfigured before the eyes of his
three disciples and they were overcome with joy. This was to be a beautiful
memory that would sustain them in the more difficult times ahead. The face Jesus
showed on Tabor was indeed a very special one but not his only one. Christ had
all the faces that we have, except the false ones. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4><A
href="http://www.bible.claret.org/liturgy/daily/sundays_pierse/cycleC/C_2ndSunLent.htm">http://www.bible.claret.org/liturgy/daily/sundays_pierse/cycleC/C_2ndSunLent.htm</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Gerry Pierse</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>We Christians may not be immune from the stresses of future
promise. But, we have a unique perspective on the future. We look forward to
God's will and the coming of the Lord in glory through the eyes of a faith two
millennia old. We are, in effect, looking at the future through a rearview
mirror. Such a view should not blind us to the possibilities of the future. It
should just give our view perspective.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4><A
href="http://www.word-sunday.com/Files/c/2Lent-c/A-2Lent-c.html">http://www.word-sunday.com/Files/c/2Lent-c/A-2Lent-c.html</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Larry Broding </FONT></DIV>
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<P class=MsoBodyText><SPAN style="LAYOUT-GRID-MODE: line; COLOR: black"><FONT
size=4>I need to put my agenda aside and listen to the lives of others. God
often speaks in the voices of others, especially through whom I might least
expect to hear Him. He speaks through children, the aged, the infirmed and
the incarcerated. He speaks through the weak, the poor, the dying and the
mentally handicapped. Our problem is that these people are out of the
mainstream of our lives. They are not written on the pages of our
consumer-based day planners. We don’t pen in a visit with the sick, or to
feed the hungry and raise the dead even though Christ made this a priority in
the lives of his disciples.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoBodyText><SPAN style="LAYOUT-GRID-MODE: line; COLOR: black"><A
href="http://onefamilyoutreach.com/bible/Luke/lk_09_28-36.html"><FONT
size=4>http://onefamilyoutreach.com/bible/Luke/lk_09_28-36.html</FONT></A></SPAN></P></DIV>
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lang=en-us><FONT size=4>Jerry Goebel</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
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size=4>I think it was something he learned on the mountain, when light burst
through all his seams and showed him what he was made of. It was something he
never forgot. If we have been allowed to intrude on that moment, it is because
someone thought we might need a dose of glory too, to get us through the night.
Some people are lucky enough to witness it for themselves, although like Peter,
James and John, very few of them will talk about it later.</FONT></DIV></SPAN>
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<DIV class=MsoBodyText><FONT size=4><SPAN
style="LAYOUT-GRID-MODE: line; COLOR: black"><FONT size=4><A
href="http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=639">http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=639</A></FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV class=MsoBodyText><FONT size=4><SPAN
style="LAYOUT-GRID-MODE: line; COLOR: black">Barbara Brown Taylor,
1998</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV class=MsoBodyText><SPAN style="LAYOUT-GRID-MODE: line; COLOR: black"><FONT
size=4>The question is urgent in a post-Holocaust Holocaust world. Although
racial anti-Semitism is by no means the same as Christian anti-Semitism,
centuries of anti-Judaism tilled the soil in which Nazi anti-Semitism took root
and flourished. Contemporary Christians need to acknowledge that something went
wrong when the pain of the first-century split between synagogue and church was
passed to subsequent generations. When political power was added to one side of
that ancient argument, the teaching of contempt shaped an entire culture. If the
teaching of contempt is an essential element of Christianity, then it is morally
untenable to be a Christian after the Holocaust. But I do not believe this to be
the case. Supersessionism is not an essential element in Christian teaching and
self-understanding. The polemics of the split were time-conditioned and are
therefore revisable.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV class=MsoBodyText><FONT size=4><SPAN
style="LAYOUT-GRID-MODE: line; COLOR: black"><FONT size=4><A
href="http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1058/is_n5_v112/ai_16607539/">http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1058/is_n5_v112/ai_16607539/</A></FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV class=MsoBodyText><SPAN style="LAYOUT-GRID-MODE: line; COLOR: black"><FONT
size=4>Darrell Jodock, 1995</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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