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Matthew 17:1-9
2 Peter 1:16-21
Exodus 24:12-18
Psalm 2
Psalm 99
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  • Children's sermon, Illustration, Preaching, Sermon, Worship

    Nazish Naseem
    Dean Feldmeyer
    Mary Austin
    Thomas Willadsen
    Katy Stenta
    George Reed
    Christopher Keating
    For February 15, 2026:

  • Children's sermon

    Bethany Peerbolte
    The disciples see Jesus transfigured with Moses and Elijah, and then Jesus tells them to tell no one. I don’t think I would have been up for the task of keeping that secret. I know this because the first time I played The Green Wall a friend told me the secret and I had the hardest time not telling everyone else the answer.

    The Green Wall is played like this. You tell the kids there...

  • Commentary

    Mark Ellingsen
    Transfiguration is a celebration of God’s glory and how that glory is revealed in Christ when he was transfigured. The festival was observed as early as the sixth century in Eastern Christianity, but did not become a festival in the Catholic Church and its Protestant heirs until just 70 years prior to the Reformation. Sermons in line with this festival will aim to focus the flock on coming to...

  • Children's Liturgy and Story

    Janice B. Scott
    Call to Worship:
    When Jesus was transfigured up on the mountain, God said, "This is my son whom I love, listen to him." In our worship today, let us listen to Jesus.

    Invitation to Confession:
    Jesus, sometimes I find it difficult to hear your voice.
    Lord, have mercy.
    Jesus, sometimes I hear so many voices that I don't know which voice is...

  • Stories

    John E. Sumwalt And Jo Perry-sumwalt
    Contents
    What's Up This Week
    A Story to Live By: "Seeing Clearly"
    Shining Moments: "Charlie Is Glowing" by Deb Alexander
    "The Horse Whisperer" by William Lee Rand
    Scrap Pile: "Picture This" by John Sumwalt


    What's Up This Week
    by John Sumwalt

    I went to see my optometrist a while back because I had been having a problem with my...

  • Stories

    Argile Smith
    Keith Hewitt
    Peter Andrew Smith
    David O. Bales
    Contents
    What's Up This Week
    "Glenda's Surprise" by Argile Smith
    "It Was Just My Imagination" by Keith Hewitt
    "The Terrible Dark Day" by Peter Andrew Smith
    "In Secret" by David Bales


    What's Up This Week
    One of the most fascinating things about the liturgical calendar is the fact that the Sunday of the Transfiguration is...

  • Sermon

    Mark Wm. Radecke
    You go into the movie theatre, find a seat that's suitable, clamber over some poor innocent slumbering in the aisle seat, taking pains not to step on toes or lose your balance. You find a place for your coat, sit down, and get ready to watch the movie. The house lights dim; the speakers crackle as the dust and scratches on the soundtrack are translated into static, and an image appears on the...

  • Sermon

    John N. Brittain
    Leslie D. Weatherhead, the great British preacher who served many years at City Temple on Holborn Viaduct in London, told the story of the elderly gentlemen who sat on the benches near the church trading stories. As one might expect, in addition to the good old days, a popular topic of conversation was their aches, pains, and ailments. "I have heard that such-and-such a clinic has a very...

  • Sermon

    Stephen M. Crotts
    Grandma was well into her eighties when she saw her first basketball game. It was a high school contest in which two of her great-grandsons played. She watched the action with great interest. Afterwards everyone piled into the van to get some ice cream, and a grandson inquired, "Grandmama, what did you think of the game?" "I sure liked it fine," she chirped. And then a little hesitantly she added...

  • Sermon

    R. Glen Miles
    Whenever I read from the book of Exodus, especially a text which includes a visit by Moses to the mountaintop to be in the presence of God, I get an image in my mind of Charlton Heston in the movie version of The Ten Commandments. I'll bet you have that problem too, don't you? It doesn't matter if you were born a decade or two since that movie was first released. It gets a lot of play on...

  • Sermon

    Joe E. Pennel, Jr
    Remember that fog we had last November? I had to venture into it early that Sunday morning. I left home about 6:00 a.m., long before most people even thought about getting up. The fog was dense. My automobile headlights would not cut it. Visibility was reduced to about ten feet. I turned on my dimmer lights and hoped that on-coming traffic would do the same. As I drove, I felt like my car was...

  • Sermon

    John T. Ball
    There is an old story about a Sunday school teacher who asked a young girl in her class why her little brother wasn't coming to Sunday school any longer. The girl replied, "Well, to tell the truth, he just can't stand Jesus!" Her brother had more of Jesus than he wanted.

    We all can understand this. Once in a while we get more of Jesus than is comfortable. James Dittes has suggested...

  • Worship

    Thom M. Shuman
    Call To Worship
    One: We gather as the faithful of God,
    we come to listen to what God has to say to us.
    All: God has invited us to this place;
    may our faces reflect our hopes and our hearts.
    One: We gather as the faithful of God,
    people of the new covenant of hope and promise.
    All: We boldly enter into the presence of God,
    hoping to be...

  • Worship

    Amy C. Schifrin
    Martha Shonkwiler
    Gathering Litany
    Divide the congregation into two parts (left and right would be easiest here) with the choir or assisting minister as a third voice besides the pastor (marked "L" in this litany).

    L: Looking for the Light.
    I: Looking for the Light.
    II: Looking for the Light.
    P: This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.
    L: Looking...

  • Commentary

    William H. Shepherd
    It was the most boring sermon I ever heard, until it became the most interesting.

    At first, I did not understand what had come over my student. Up to this point in the class, I thought she had been getting it. She laughed when I quoted Kierkegaard, "Boredom is the root of all evils." She nodded her head when I said that the dullest presentation would not be redeemed by the soundest...

  • Children's sermon

    Good morning, boys and girls. Kermit the Frog came along with me this morning. How many of you watch Kermit on public television? (Let them answer.) I've watched a bit of Kermit myself. One of the things he does that I like the best is when he pre tends that he is a television newscaster. When he does this he always reports events as an eyewitness. How many of you like his eyewitness TV reports...

  • Children's Activity

    SHARING THIS WEEK'S GOSPEL THEME AT SUNDAY SCHOOL AND AT HOME

    Materials:
    Blue construction paper
    White cotton balls
    Glue
    Alphabet pasta

    Directions:

    1. Give each of the children a piece of blue construction paper.

    2. Tell the children to use the cotton balls to make clouds and glue them onto the paper.
    ...

  • Children's sermon

    And he was transfigured before them, and his face shone like the sun, and his clothes became dazzling white. (v. 2)

    Good morning, boys and girls. Today is the Transfiguration of our Lord and it is one of the special days of the church year. Today we talk about Jesus changing in several ways while three of his disciples -- Peter, James, and John -- watched. How did he change...

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