Transfiguration - Take up your cross

Mark 8:34-9:13 [and Mark 8:1-33] are the middle and pinnacle stories in the Gospel of Mark. They are where the story peaks with the mountain experience, then turns, ominously, to the cross! In the first half of the gospel Jesus identity has been revealed through miracle and parable, in the second half Jesus confronts us directly with his radical message - to change the world, to change history, but proclaiming a message of servanthood, then living and dying it, on the cross!  You must hear this message.