This (past) Sunday's Sermon: Trying to Hold on to Glory

This past Sunday I preached on the transfiguration, specifically on how Peter responded to it by offering (ridiculously) to pitch tents for Jesus, Moses and Elijah. Peter is much like us in his desire to hold on to the glory, to move from "good to great", while the way of Jesus, the way of the cross, is always death before resurrection, suffering before glory.

Have a listen and let me know what you think!

Here's the text:

Mark 9. 2-10
Jesus took with him Peter and James and John, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. And he was transfigured before them, and his clothes became radiant, intensely white, as no one on earth could bleach them. And there appeared to them Elijah with Moses, and they were talking with Jesus. And Peter said to Jesus, "Rabbi, it is good that we are here. Let us make three tents, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah." For he did not know what to say, for they were terrified. And a cloud overshadowed them, and a voice came out of the cloud, "This is my beloved Son; listen to him." And suddenly, looking around, they no longer saw anyone with them but Jesus only.
And as they were coming down the mountain, he charged them to tell no one what they had seen, until the Son of Man had risen from the dead. So they kept the matter to themselves, questioning what this rising from the dead might mean.