Readings for Transfiguration Sunday

Exodus 24:12-18 Psalm 99 Philippians 3:7-14 Matthew 17:1-9

Dr. Adam Johnson uses the readings from the seventh Sunday of Epiphany and Transfiguration Sunday to explore the story of the Transfiguration. The readings all show us how God has given the Church an unusual and somewhat backward concept of submission. In light of this unusual definition of submission we are able to see that the Transfiguration is not about looking at Jesus as something completely different from us as humans; but rather we are able to see him as a foreshadowing of our own fate.