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"Who are you, Lord? Why does God love even me? Why does Grace seem so arbitrary in that some are healed and some are not? Why Is There Suffering? Just What Is Servant Leadership Anyway? God's Timing!   Why Does He Make Us Wait? These are questions we have dealt with in the last several weeks. Along the way we have been helped to answer these questions or at least talk about them through encounters with Jesus and the people who encountered him as recorded in the Bible. In today’s encounter, Jesus has apparently planned a very special encounter between him and his disciples and Moses and Elijah. This gives us another look at just who Jesus is and helps us believe that we should trust what we have been learning about in the Bible. So we return to the question, “Who are you Lord?” for another perspective. As we begin I want to share a smaller question with you. The Transfiguration event is one of the five great milestones noted in the life of Christ, along with B...

Read John 13:1-17 Back in Glenburn I was taking out the trash for our church. It just so happened that I was late for the usual truck that goes by the end of the main driveway on Hudson Rd. But the church was on the corner of Hudson and Lakeview and I knew that the other truck was coming down Lakeview in a little while so I would just take the trash out that way. But “out that way” meant going right down the center aisle of the sanctuary with the big bags of trash in order to use the door closest to that second driveway. I began to apologize to God for bringing the messy stuff into his sanctuary, and I almost considered going back, outside the usual door, and around the long way. But then I realized that God was not uncomfortable with messy stuff. In fact that is why he came into the world, to take out our trash! To take the trash out of our lives! Jesus washed his disciples’ feet. That was a dirty job usually assigned to the lowest slaves in the house. It’s hard to figure o...