Drew Downs
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New Love For a Change
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9 min read
The mistake we make is to think that GOD never changes. But GOD is always looking for a new thing, new creations, new love. And more to the fact, we are perpetually confronted with the same challenge: to produce the new thing, the new creation, the new love.
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Solomon Not Pharaoh
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6 min read
The Exodus is the seminal story of Torah and the Hebrew Scriptures. However, it isn’t the only story. If we stopped at the end of Deuteronomy, we’d be likely to see the never-failing support of GOD for the chosen people, the Children of Israel (Jacob) in the twelve tribes as complete and eternal. It is…
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The Unbearable Lightness of Meing
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13 min read
How selfish culture has made a mockery of religious freedom It was just a little thing. Three words: a phrase. The extending of rights. And yet, we all knew what it meant. Things were changing. A lot. All About Me We’ve been selfish a long time. More than a few decades. The Gordon Geckoification of…
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Clearly Jesus
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8 min read
From day one, we have struggled to name Jesus. Name the Messiah. Name what he came to do. Name his substance. Name his mission. How “the real Jesus” is never really JesusEaster 4C | John 10:22-30 For three straight weeks, we have had good resurrection gospel stories. We’ve been praising the risen Christ. We’ve said…
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Swimming Naked
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9 min read
This story is still Peter’s story. For it isn’t just that he gets dressed so that Jesus doesn’t see him naked in the boat. But when he covers himself, what does he do? He dives in. Why? We don’t know. But here’s a thought. He needed to get to Jesus. Peter is always trying to…
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3 Things I Learned From Writing Everyday
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5 min read
Writing goals aren’t only about setting them and doing them: they are also about shifting them based on what you learn along the way. These are the three things I learned from making writing goals, testing them out, and seeing how I did.