Sermon in a Bottle

Second Sunday of Lent - B.  "Questioning what rising from the dead meant."

I go to movies only occasionally.  Most of the movie theater experience is good -- except for the multitude of trailers.  Six, eight, ten, twelve, before you get to the actual movie.  But you have to hand it to the editors of trailers.  They can make the shaggiest of movies look Oscar worthy.  That's how I see the transfiguration experience of Jesus.  It's a preview of coming attractions, a hint of what comes after death in Jerusalem.  And, like many trailers, it leaves the three friends of Jesus wondering what it's all about.  In the middle of Lent, it's good for us to peak ahead too, to Easter's joy.