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  • Jesus’s Leave-Taking — the Ascension and modern discipleship

    Drew Downs

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    May 29, 2025

    Jesus’s Leave-Taking — the Ascension and modern discipleship

    The Ascension of Christ is our opportunity to reflect on our relationship to Jesus, as followers and present participants.

    Sermons
  • The Promise — True peace, the Spirit, and actually living

    Drew Downs

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    May 25, 2025

    The Promise — True peace, the Spirit, and actually living

    Jesus makes a promise to his disciples about presence and peace that is fundamentally different than the promises of the world.

    Sermons
  • Radioactive Language

    Drew Downs

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    May 22, 2025

    Radioactive Language

    Episode 93 of the Make Saints podcast

    Podcast
  • Loving People—the practice of being more like Jesus

    Drew Downs

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    May 18, 2025

    Loving People—the practice of being more like Jesus

    Returning to the Last Supper, to the scene of great anxiety and fear, Jesus delivers a message of love when they are tempted to hate.

    Sermons
  • Saint Frances Perkins and the value of community

    Drew Downs

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    May 13, 2025

    Saint Frances Perkins and the value of community

    In the person of Frances Perkins, we have the model of a faithful response to politics, to living in a world, and participating fully in it.

    Faith
  • The Christians — On faith, love, and mixed identities

    Drew Downs

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    May 11, 2025

    The Christians — On faith, love, and mixed identities

    This week’s gospel wrestles with authority and identity in faith and politics, and thankfully, in Jesus, we have both teacher and messiah.

    Sermons
  • Too close to Jesus? — Intimacy, love, and discipleship

    Drew Downs

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    May 4, 2025

    Too close to Jesus? — Intimacy, love, and discipleship

    When the disciples run into Jesus, Peter acts like a fool, jumping into the water. Peter is the way into that feeling, to examine ourselves.

    Sermons
  • Regular or Irregular?

    Drew Downs

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    April 29, 2025

    Regular or Irregular?

    Are you trying to decide whether to do something regularly or irregularly? Common wisdom has a preference but the question is do you?

    writing
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