Drew Downs – Drew Downs

Thinking about stuff and drinking coffee

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4 min read

A check-in to talk about what I’m currently up to (still writing — and doing more of it) and what that means for the blog.

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4 min read

The challenge Jesus offers us is to look past our assumptions about sin and tragedy and instead toward what we do to each other.

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The human tendency to blame, to punish, or assume the worst — to compare — is at the center of Jesus’s call to cut it out.

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1 min read

There is a way we focus on what the word has come to mean to us, rather than what it means to Jesus — another chance at grace.

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8 min read

As Jesus is warned of his coming execution, he reminds us who is responsible for the executing and why the problem is really on them.

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3 min read

When Pharisees come to warn Jesus of the king’s plans, we are forced to confront our own sense of what this means and how to feel about it.