Topic: Transfiguration

Beloved, the Church is the only place where people can find true healing and refuge from the failings of a fallen world. We have an obligation to stand as outposts of truth and sanity amid a culture that is losing its collective grip on reality. This requires the Church to no longer abandon her simple duty to point out what is right and wrong, even when it is “controversial.” Our call to embrace the incarnate life, then, is to accept our duty as the Church - to be the hands and feet of Christ in our communities.

In Luke 9:28-36, we read an account of Christ's Transfiguration, a revealing of His perfect holiness on earth. But what really is God's holiness, and what does it mean for how we should worship Him?

We spend so much of our lives self-focused, but almost none of that time self-aware. We convince ourselves of lies about how we want people to see us, but we never confront the reality of who we really are in our sinful state. The Transfiguration of Christ gives us the perspective of God’s holiness, our depravity before Him, and our need for Jesus’s saving grace. When we fall prostrate before the Lord, we gain true perspective on how messed up we really are.

The Transfiguration is an oft-overlooked passage of scripture, but this event carries deep significance for Jesus' life and ministry, and tells us much about Christ's identity. Watch as the Rev. Galloway discusses the enduring significance of Christ's Transfiguration.