Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

Sermons

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

  • 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.

  • In Luke 19, we get a disturbing image that casts Jesus in a whole new light.

  • Too Good

    Many of us come to religion to learn how to be good. But it is this pursuit, to be the most good, which leads us to do the greatest harm. making the question about being right leads us to do wrongLent 5C |Luke 15, John 12:1-8 It never occurred to me the story would end…