Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

  • Being Together

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    7 min read

    Our focus on being together can get in the way of making it happen–and doing the very thing we’re called to do.

  • The next stage is here

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    4 min read

    What the pandemic surge at the start of COVID Year Three tells us we should be looking at; and why we aren’t.

  • Avoiding the Gospel

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    3 min read

    In reading of Jesus’s visit to the synagogue, we are given a mirror to hold up to ourselves and see what we’d rather not.

  • Gospel – what makes good news

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    1 min read

    Gospel, like “good news” is loaded. And WE don’t always like it. But the question was never whether we like it.

  • The Good Wine

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    2 min read

    When Jesus keeps the wine flowing at the wedding party, we get a chance to adjust our expectations in a surprising way.

  • Better Than We Are

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    6 min read

    Jesus’s miracle of turning water into wine is famous. But it isn’t the only thing that matters about this story.