Sermon for the Last Sunday after Epiphany
And so, we come to the last Sunday of the Season of Epiphany, during which we have considered the various ways in which Jesus is made manifest through the Scriptures as the Christ, the One sent from God to save us from our sins. In the verses preceding the gospel passage we read together this morning, Jesus has been at prayer with his disciples, who have recognized that he is indeed the Christ of God. Now, he is at prayer again, on a mountain top, and the select three who are with him see and hear the glory of God in and around him, surely confirming their earlier recognition.
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