Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

  • The challenge of crowning Jesus as king is that he doesn’t want the title. There’s a problem, too, with insisting it.

  • For the last Sunday after Pentecost, we are offered the crucifixion, a weird place to end, knowing it is no ending.

  • The phrase “don’t feed the trolls” has been around as long as many of us have used the internet. It needs an update.

  • We love accuracy. But we’ll throw it in the trash when given the chance to emphasize something we think is important.

  • When we hear Jesus’s apocalyptic talk, we often shut down. Which means we avoid hearing the good news itself.

  • When people speak in absolutes, they are defining the terms in the most extreme way possible. Rarely is it true.