Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

Sermons

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

  • The parable of the talent is a mind-bending distortion of Jesus’s previous teachings. The negative proof of a positive vision.

  • The parable of the bridesmaids is a story of dysfunction in the middle of a pandemic. Which makes it pretty fitting for us.

  • A poem for All Saints’ Day about the Beatitudes, the spirit of God, and what it means to be alive in this moment.

  • The blessed servant or the righteous king lineage. When these two stories compete, which wins? And what does this say about us?

  • We forget the question of taxes is a trap. And Jesus’s answer isn’t a solution to modern society. It is, however, essential.

  • Being There

    Our blindness to the presence of God is normal. But it is also an obstacle to our work of building the kin-dom.