Rev. Leonard (M.Div. Fuller Seminary) is the pastor at Epping Community Church, Epping, NH. His messages are timely, scriptural, and focus on issues of faith. His church serves Christians from a variety of denominational backgrounds, so while Rev. Leonard is himself Reformed he takes an ecumenical approach. While the podcast focuses primarily on sermons, special music, etc. will be included time to time.
We take a look at the transfiguration in the gospel of Mark
In today's passage, Peter finally gets what 8 chapters of Mark have been building towards the recognition of Jesus as the Christ. However, the same issue that we have been looking at this entire series remains. Peter's definition of Messiah is still very different than Jesus'. This passage represents a pivot point in the gospel, so we this is the first of two messages looking at this section.
Mark ch 8, parallels much of the material from the 1st half of Mark Ch 6 & 7.
Using the story so far we look at the specific point Jesus was making with feeding the 4000, as well as how aggressive the debates with the Pharisees and scribes were becoming.