Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

Sermons

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

  • Their confusion over expectations of the Messiah isn’t Jesus’s fault.

  • What Jesus told them to do was follow him. Instead, 7 disciples went to the beach.

  • When Jesus joins the disciples in John 20:19-31, we shouldn’t put Thomas on trial. It is their fear that reveals a greater doubt.

  • The Story

    In returning to the beginning of the story, we come to see how Jesus got here, how we got here, and what we’re called to about it.

  • In the resurrection story, we get an Easter image as confounding as it is hopeful.

  • Luke makes it clear Jesus doesn’t “deserve” the crucifixion. Not only to maintain Jesus’s innocence but prove the moral corruption of execution.