Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

Sermons

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

  • Making Peace

    Jesus sends us out to proclaim peace. But some people we like don’t want to hear it.

  • God’s love isn’t transactional. It restores us all.

  • The power in the story of the man healed of so many demons is not simply that he finds someone to love him. It’s that he becomes a multiplier of love. receiving God’s love to give it awayProper 7C | Luke 8:26-39 When you walk into this room, I always wonder what you’re thinking about.…

  • The doctrine of the Trinity is a paradox. We totally hate paradoxes.

  • The Holy Spirit isn’t a fixer – like we’re gangsters who need someone to clean up our mess.

  • Desiring Glory

    No matter how many times God tells us love isn’t earned, we don’t truly believe it. We desire a kind of glory which will never give us love. When we desire a different glory, we find a different God.Easter 7C | John 17:20-26 We return again to glory. The author of the gospel we call…