As a rule, Lutherans aren’t big on testimonials. I know that other “flavors” of Christianity like it when people tell their faith stories, but for Lutherans, we get a little hesitant when it comes to anything that smacks of egocentrism (and please understand, by saying that, I’m not saying that…
Last week, I told you a little about my spiritual journey, how I kept getting stuck on spiritual highs, only to crash a short time later. I mentioned how, when I left home for college, I felt worried. I had enrolled at Concordia University in St. Paul (although we called…
So the past couple of Mondays, I’ve been telling you all (or, at least, as many of you stop by to read) the story of how I used to be obsessed with spiritual highs—mountaintop experiences, as it were. And last week, I told you that one of my professors in…
Over the past few Mondays, I’ve been talking about spiritual mountaintops, how it’s so easy to get caught up in our emotions that we become convinced that we’re as close to God as we’ve ever been. But then we tumble back down the other side and crash. Moses had just…
We don’t just find mountaintop experiences in the Old Testament. Three of the apostles had an amazing one. It’s a story that’s told in Matthew, Mark, and Luke. Peter and the Transfiguration One day, Jesus invited Peter, James, and John to go up with Him to the top of a…
So for the past few weeks, we’ve been looking at a pattern of mountaintop experiences that God’s people experienced in the past. The pattern, which we saw with Moses, Elijah, and Peter, goes something like this: The primary experience – Whoever it is goes up on a mountain and has…
