Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

Sermons

Sermons preached in a context, but written for people of all sorts and conditions.

  • A Messy Temple

    In all of the order of the Temple, we struggle to see the mess underneath; why things need to change; and even what to do about it.

  • The return of temptation is a reminder of what our resistance to temptation is really about. Keeping faith in a life full of hope.

  • Into the Wild

    Mark doesn’t tell us what is tempting Jesus in the wilderness. But we know what it is about. Because we know what tempts us.

  • How to Pray

    When we gather together, placing ashes on our foreheads to remember our mortality, we join a very public and common witness.

  • Sometimes what we see in the world isn’t real. Or more precisely, real in the way we imagine it. Because we aren’t actually listening.

  • There is so much unsaid in the text. We’ll miss how powerful it is. And how much we already assume is just clearly there.