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  • Blessed with new sight

    Drew Downs

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    November 2, 2023

    Blessed with new sight

    In both gospels for this week, we are invited to see things differently—about our world, the people around us, and how it all works.

    Faith
  • Beacons of Blessed Hope—for All Saints Day

    Drew Downs

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    November 1, 2023

    Beacons of Blessed Hope—for All Saints Day

    In the Beatitudes, we are offered a vision of hope that is certainly unconventional, but it is purposeful. Blessing is for our common thriving.

    Faith
  • Blessed—and our eternal struggle with worth

    Drew Downs

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    October 31, 2023

    Blessed—and our eternal struggle with worth

    The concept of blessing, as we’ve inherited it, has conflicting understandings. In changing our own focus, we change our approach.

    Faith
  • Between Proper 25 + 26. Or All Saints.

    Drew Downs

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    October 30, 2023

    Between Proper 25 + 26. Or All Saints.

    Let’s dive into the context for both choices we get for this Sunday. Continue the story into Matthew 23, or honor all of the saints?

    Faith
  • Love all the way down

    Drew Downs

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    October 29, 2023

    Love all the way down

    There’s a thing we miss about the great commandment: to love God and our neighbors as ourselves. And that is that we are made of love.

    Sermons
  • How rejecting conspiracy theories can actually obscure the truth

    Drew Downs

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    October 28, 2023

    How rejecting conspiracy theories can actually obscure the truth

    Most of us understand that conspiracy theories are fake. But in rejecting them, we miss the very means of disrupting them.

    Living
  • Why being the Devil’s Advocate is a bankrupt profession

    Drew Downs

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    October 27, 2023

    Why being the Devil’s Advocate is a bankrupt profession

    We love the idea. And the phrase is so common. Offer a different perspective. Doesn’t matter if its useful. Make sure we talk anyway.

    Living
  • To be at least something like God

    Drew Downs

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    October 26, 2023

    To be at least something like God

    Our gospel this week returns to ideas of love and authority. Two concepts that seem, at first, to have nothing to do with each other. And yet…

    Faith
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