The Transfiguration sermon I need (Matthew 17:1-9)
There is no "on the mountain" and "off the mountain."
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You know that Transfiguration sermon that exhorts us to appreciate the transience of mountaintop beauty only for a moment before we descend into the world’s brokenness, joining Jesus in the way of suffering? I used to like hearing that sermon. I may even have preached it once or twice.
