Sip #1 – Read Chapter 9 of Mark in the HCSB translation as Round 5 rolls on
Sip #2 – Read my big takeaway from the day
Sip #3 – Add comments/thoughts/questions in the Comments Box (bottom of page). NOT REQUIRED
Sip #4 – Re-read any parts of Chapter 9 that impacted you
Sip #5 – Come back tomorrow as we move to Mark, Chapter 10

The Lady Spartans are just four days away from Sectionals now. We have those four days to work on some details, but, for the most part, we just need to stay fresh and loose. It’s a competition with ourselves to get to State! Can’t wait for the first event on Saturday! It’s the best time of the year.

On that note, let’s sound the gun and read Mark, Chapter 9, and take a little time to unpack verses 2-6…

“After six days Jesus took Peter, James, and John and led them up on a high mountain by themselves to be alone. He was transformed in front of them, and His clothes became dazzling—extremely white as no launderer on earth could whiten them. Elijah appeared to them with Moses, and they were talking with Jesus.

Then Peter said to Jesus, ‘Rabbi, it’s good for us to be here! Let us make three tabernacles: one for You, one for Moses, and one for Elijah’— because he did not know what he should say, since they were terrified.”

Back in 1994, Steven Curtis Chapman wrote a song called, “The Mountain” about this very scripture. It’s one of my…