Drew Downs https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Blessing is an Invitation to Build Something Better Transcendent, Beautiful — the call to follow Jesus A Beautiful Gift — Of Tending Sheep and Watching Stars Love From the Beginning — a Gift of Grace and Truth To See and Know For Ourselves — for Palm Sunday Confusion at the Tomb — for Easter Day Risen — attributing the glory to God A Threat of Grace — The love exposed by the triumphal entry Good — the perpetual challenge of our darkest day New Life and a Refusal to Die All Of Us — the Revolutionary Spirit of Christmas Unbind Him and Let Him Go — for Lent 5A Unbinding — letting go of hangups and living Well — Jacob, inheritance, and family separation Trust in What You Can’t See — for Lent 4A See — on wholeness and ability For the Sake of Love — The Embarrassing Life of Service A New Opportunity to Live With Grace Trust — the Love of God, Hope of the World A Family Reunion — the unique power of radical hospitality The Disciples at the Well — for Lent 3A The Night Meeting Scenario — the Secrets of Redeeming Grace Persevere — How to Rejoice in the Prophetic Promise of Jesus Choosing and Faith—for Advent 4A Reflecting on Nicodemus and Fear — for Lent 2A Cookie Policy More Private and Public — on the paradox of Ash Wednesday To Be Free We Must Give Up on Violence Modern Apocalypse — the Crucifixion and redeeming love Is the Political Divide in Mainline Churches Even Real? Temptation and the Need for Discipline More Than Salt and Light — for Epiphany 5A In Secret — the internal conflict of an open faith This is the Way — Jesus and the rejection of supremacy The Tempting Away From God — for Lent 1A Alive Again — The time-bending love of the resurrection Forgetting to Listen — for Epiphany LastA Mountain Talk — Command and Love In a Time of Fear Transfigure — where seeing meets believing For Love, For God — for Epiphany 4A Our saints are the antidote — Revealing God’s dream Blessed when we don’t want to be Salt — messy metaphor in an age of heart disease Persistent Faith, True Love Holding a Posture of Grace “Attack” is a strange word for protest Neighbors for love — Restoration at a time of division Just a Little Bit Better — on the low bar of faith The seductive power of wealth is a rejection of faith Sacrifice and Love — the Tragedy in the Crucifixion