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Jesus, Moses and Elijah met on a mountain.  The disciples fell asleep as glory short-circuited their attention span.  Jesus blazed whiter than the white hot sun.   Hmmmm….the most extraordinary experiences of God seem to happen out in nature, as though nature were an outdoor cathedral.
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I wonder if we’ve had the emphasis on the wrong syllable on the pressing issue of authority.  Speaking big picture, long time frame here.  The church at it’s inception had one creed: Jesus is Lord.  Simple.  All authority in heaven and on earth given to him, Jesus. What rolls off our tongue like a tired chorus, was, on their lips, incendiary. Jesus is Lord and Caesar is not, and Apollos is not and Astarte is not and the moon and the sun and the stars are not….and the powers and principalities that hold sway in this world are not.  Every knee shall bow before the One not the many, not the several, not the few.
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