Sermon and Worship Resources for Transfiguration Sunday Texts & Discussion: Exodus 34:29-35 Psalm 99 2 Corinthians 3:12-4:2 Luke 9:28-36, (37-43)     Call to Worship L: Let’s go up the mountain. To the place of voices and conversations, to the place of listening. P: To the place of meeting, to the place of mists, L: Let’s go up to the place where the land meets the sky where the earth touches the heavens, P: to the place of meeting, to the place of mists, All: Let’s go up the mountain to worship Christ the King    Click here for all resources Sermons Transfigured and Transformed, Luke 9:28-36     (see excerpt below) Rev. Karen Goltz        A MOUNTAIN-TOP EXPERIENCE, Luke 9:28-36,( 37-43) By Rev. Dr. David Rogne     Invitation to Prayer, Luke 9:28-36 by Rev. Randy Quinn        Children's Messages God Shining Through You, Luke 9:28-36 Rev. Randy Quinn   This Little Light, 2 Corinthians 3:18 by Rev. Jean Kohlenstein    Smiley Faces, Exodus 34:29-35 by Rev. Frank Schaefer   Shiny Things, based on Luke 9:28-36, Ladypreacher from Ohio ______________________________ Sermon Excerpt: Transfigured and Transformed based on Luke 9:28-36 Rev. Karen Goltz One of the more difficult things I had to learn in seminary was vocabulary.  Not Greek or Hebrew vocabulary (although that was difficult, too), but church vocabulary.  Have you ever noticed that we have a different ‘churchy’ name for things that could probably just as easily be called by a more familiar, non-churchy word?  For example, I am speaking from a pulpit, not a podium.  Actually, I’m not even speaking, or lecturing.  I’m preaching.  The book holder is a lectern.  The table is an altar. Even the simplest things have fancy names – some churches have a flagon as part of their communion-ware, not a pitcher; the bread sits on a paten not a plate; the cup is called a chalice, and the baptismal water bowl is called a font.  Pastors and assisting ministers often wear albs—not robes—to signify the fact that we are engaged in God’s work in God’s house. When I’m teaching someone new to the faith about the basics of Lutheran worship, I’m torn between using the special vocabulary and using ordinary words for everything.  On one hand I feel that I should teach this special vocabulary because it does make things here in the spiritual world of the Church seem just a little more special and a little more holy.  This special vocabulary has been passed down from one generation to another for ages, and it does help to designate this space as a place away from the world and the ordinariness of our normal day to day work.  This special status is also a reminder that we are in this world but not of this world.  That we are God’s people, not the people of the world....click here for full manuscript