Peace-ing Together

“Be Transformed”

Scripture: Exodus 34: 29-35; Luke 9: 28-36
Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church, Asheville, NC
March 3, 2019, Transfiguration

Being a Jesus follower means being open to the possibility of transformation no matter how far along on your journey you are, no matter how deep your wound is, no matter how hopeless things feel.  Transformation is not just a new attitude or a new perspective. Transformation is a change in form, a material, cellular, radical change that defies our expectations, that doesn’t just change us, but changes the world.

History and Healing in America: Can Governor Northam Help or Hurt?

A few years after my mother was born in 1937 in Fayette, Mississippi, my grandfather, a carpenter, farmer, and contractor planted a live oak sapling in their front yard. He planted it in the center of the yard in front of the house he built for his family to grow along with my mother. Every summer while I was young we’d sit under that grand live oak in lawn chairs, you know the kind that left an imprint on the back of your legs and that you could replace the vinyl strips if they started to wear out. We’d eat...