Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

Sermons

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

  • Peter, the Beloved Disciple, and why the way we judge ourselves keeps us from seeing how much we are truly loved.

  • Thomas isn’t the paragon of doubt. He shows us how belief goes way beyond our narrow, post-enlightenment framing.

  • The thing about faith is that we don’t just want to be better. We want to want to be better. And that is where the magic is.

  • The empty tomb reveals both the joy and fear of new things: and our tendency to assume what our faith tells us not to.

  • In the Passion, we receive a story of innocence murdered. But that story’s foundation is all so much temptation.

  • Celebrating Palm Sunday forces us to recognize what responsibility we have. And what responsibility we pretend we don’t have.