In February, we find ourselves jumping around a bit through Matthew’s story of Jesus.
The first two Sundays come from Jesus’s “Sermon on the Mount,” outlining his moral teachings. Then we jump forward to his transfiguration on the mountain, echoing Moses’s experience of God on the mountain several centuries before. Our special service on Ash Wednesday, marking the beginning of the season of Lent, finds us right back in the Sermon on the Mount. Finally, we move back a little in the story to Jesus’s 40 days in the wilderness, after his baptism but before his public ministry…