{"id":166,"date":"2016-02-07T11:56:40","date_gmt":"2016-02-07T16:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bethelnaz.org\/sermons\/?p=166"},"modified":"2016-02-10T12:08:31","modified_gmt":"2016-02-10T17:08:31","slug":"what-does-transfiguration-mean-pastor-mat-thomas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bethelnaz.org\/sermons\/2016\/02\/07\/what-does-transfiguration-mean-pastor-mat-thomas\/","title":{"rendered":"What does Transfiguration mean? Pastor Mat Thomas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this sermon, Pastor Mat preaches from Luke 9:28-43.\u00a0 He addresses what Transfiguration Sunday is all about.\u00a0This story challenges our over rationalization of the faith.\u00a0 Everything is not explainable.\u00a0 God is beyond our comprehension.\u00a0 God is bigger than the boxes that we attempt to place God into. This text tells us\u00a0that the glory of God is only possible if lived together, in community. Eugene Peterson states, &#8220;Reaching out is an act of wholeness, not only for others, but for us. For it takes a whole world to understand a whole Christ.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3977\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-166-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bethelnaz.org\/sermons\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/02-07-13.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bethelnaz.org\/sermons\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/02-07-13.mp3\">http:\/\/www.bethelnaz.org\/sermons\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/02-07-13.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bethelnaz.org\/sermons\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/02-07-13.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.bethelnaz.org\/sermons\/?powerpress_pinw=166-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bethelnaz.org\/sermons\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/02-07-13.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"02-07-13.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this sermon, Pastor Mat preaches from Luke 9:28-43.\u00a0 He addresses what Transfiguration Sunday is all about.\u00a0This story challenges our over rationalization of the faith.\u00a0 Everything is not explainable.\u00a0 God is beyond our comprehension.\u00a0 God is bigger than the boxes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bethelnaz.org\/sermons\/2016\/02\/07\/what-does-transfiguration-mean-pastor-mat-thomas\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,83,37,84,82,81,80],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermon","tag-compassion","tag-elijah","tag-jesus","tag-justice","tag-luke","tag-moses","tag-transfiguration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bethelnaz.org\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bethelnaz.org\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bethelnaz.org\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bethelnaz.org\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bethelnaz.org\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bethelnaz.org\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169,"href":"https:\/\/www.bethelnaz.org\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions\/169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bethelnaz.org\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bethelnaz.org\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bethelnaz.org\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}