Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

Faith

The search for meaning, purpose, and relationship. Our need for love compels us to seek it out, and when we find it, share it.

  • Jesus’s images often have us looking in the opposite direction. Usually because we’re looking the wrong way.

  • One of the flaws in our thinking is that we see ourselves as needing to be condemned by the one who wouldn’t.

  • We often mistake the pursuit of justice as a problem. Then punish the justice seeker rather than extrajudicial violence.

  • Thomas Gallaudet and Henry Winter Syle remind us to focus not on our impairments, but on the gospel itself.

  • God isn’t about fuflilling wishes or looking to help people grow in power. Our purpose is more than selfish desire. But eager to say yes.Bernard | John 15:7–11 “If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask for whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.” These words are at…

  • Fear

    This weekend, our plumbing backed up. It was gross. And as new homeowners, it was also scary. The solution, in the end, was quite simple and easily fixed. The plumbers came out, opened a pipe in the backyard and snaked down toward the main sewer lines. There was little truly surprising about the experience, but…