03/03/2019
Luke 9:28-36
Chris Breslin
“Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.” -Elvis Costello (maybe, or David Byrne, Frank Zappa, Brian Eno, Thelonius Monk…)
Christ plays in ten thousand places,
Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his
To the Father through the features of men’s faces.
-Gerard Manley Hopkins from As Kingfishers Catch Fire
But this blessing
is built for leaving.
This blessing
is made for coming down
the mountain.
This blessing
wants to be in motion,
to travel with you
as you return
to level ground.
-Jan Richardson from Dazzling
“…the neighborhood serves to transfigure the church.” -Heidi Neumark from Breathing Space
“There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.” -C.S. Lewis fromThe Weight of Glory
The ordinary saints, the ones we know,
Our too-familiar family and friends,
When shall we see them? Who can truly show
Whilst still rough-hewn, the God who shapes our ends?
Who will unveil the presence, glimpse the gold
That is and always was our common ground,
Stretch out a finger, feel, along the fold
To find the flaw, to touch and search that wound
From which the light we never noticed fell
Into our lives? Remember how we turned
To look at them, and they looked back? That full-
-eyed love unselved us, and we turned around,
Unready for the wrench and reach of grace.
But one day we will see them face to face.
-Malcolm Guite, Ordinary Saints
Sermon Resources:
Season Resources:
Joy is for Epiphany, tooby Miroslav Volf (Christian Century)
Living the Christian Year: Time to Inhabit the Story of Godby Bobby Gross
Scripture:
Songs for Today’s Worship Gathering:
Come All Ye Pining by Steele/Murphy
All Creatures of Our God and King by Francis of Assisi
River Where Mercy Flows by Miller
Grace Upon Grace by McCracken
Rest by Maher/Cockrell
The Transfiguration by Stevens
Doxology
