Drew Downs
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Jesus Ascended
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4 min read
In Jesus Ascended, Scott Douglas explores Jesus’s Ascension – a theological concept Christians routinely profess and almost never think about.
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Everyday Heroes
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6 min read
Nicodemus comes to him because he saw the signs, because he believes, because he wants something more, something only Jesus can give.
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Divine Suffering
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8 min read
Jesus is led into the wilderness to be tempted. Tempted with power, understanding, everything he could desire. Everything we desire.
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Welcome to Lent
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9 min read
Lent, that season before Easter, is known for abstaining and fasting. But it is more than that. It’s a learning lab with a deadline. Lent as a 40-Day Love ChallengeAsh Wednesday | Matthew 6:1-6,16-21 Today is the first day of Lent. Like many Christians, all over the world, I got up and focused on devotion.…
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A New World
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9 min read
The Transfiguration comes as a strange interlude. But its brevity reveals its true purpose is to reorient the disciples to their new journey.
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In My Backyard
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9 min read
In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus pushes us to examine our place and our sense of community in an atomized and dysfunctional world.