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The Right Rev. Robert Johnson is the retired bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina, Raleigh, NC.
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The Right Rev. Robert Johnson is the retired bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina, Raleigh, NC.
He was born in Columbus, GA, and graduated from Mercer University, Macon, GA. He earned an MDiv degree from Yale University and an MA from North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC. He was awarded honorary doctorates from Berkeley Divinity School at Yale and the University of the South, Sewanee, TN.
He served as Bishop of North Carolina 1994-2000. Earlier he served as rector of St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Durham, and other parishes in North Carolina.
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Jesus Gives Living Water
John 4:5-42
March 07, 1999
The Rt. Rev. Robert Johnson (TEC)One reason the Gospel of John is so challenging for me is that it seems almost too crowded. Like an over-furnished parlor, everything in it is interesting, that you have to spend hours in it to discover it all.
Today's reading from John is typical of what I mean. Jesus meets a Samaritan woman at Jacob's well. Tired from a day's journey, Jesus asks for a drink. She says, "How is it that you, a Jew, ask a drink of me, a woman of Samaria," since Jews never deal with Samaritans?
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Transfiguration
Matthew 17:1-9
February 14, 1999
The Rt. Rev. Robert Johnson (TEC)"Jesus took with him Peter and James and his brother John and led them up a high mountain, by themselves. And he was transfigured before them, and his face shone like the sun, and his clothes became dazzling white."
The church calls this event the Transfiguration of Christ. Jesus was "transfigured": the figure, the image, the look that he had, the face that showed to others was changed over. The appearance of his face changed. Jesus had a different look.
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