1. In Mark’s account, our Lord was in a literal wilderness and fought the literal powers of Satan. But He did it so people in any wilderness might know the comforting power of God.
  2. How do we celebrate the Transfiguration? We listen to Jesus. His words bring forgiveness and life that transfigure our world.
  3. Jesus is about the business of remaking creation, one synagogue, one house, one city at a time.
  4. Jesus is found in places of suffering, both with the one suffering and with the one giving mercy, in the most mysterious of ways.
  5. Those who imagine God as hard and ungracious are judged severely. Those who trust in God’s mercy in Jesus are encouraged immensely.

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