Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

Advent 2A

  • To Be Free We Must Give Up on Violence

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    8 min read

    The prophetic voices of Isaiah and John the Baptist reveal the limits of our obsession with power against the boundless purifying love of Jesus.

  • What’s their angle? —for Advent 2A

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    2 min read

    John the Baptist responds to the Pharisees and Sadducees with an incredulity we must notice. That it isn’t about defensiveness, but justice.

  • Here’s Johnny! (Advent 2A)

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    2 min read

    In the gospel for Advent 2A, we are introduced to John the Baptist; who proceeds to spit truth that we aren’t ready for.

  • These particular children of Abraham

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    3 min read

    The message of John the Baptist challenges all of the ways we put identity before love, and invites us to change that.

  • Not the Same Old Same Old

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    10 min read

    The season we often use to anticipate Christmas can be an invitation to both plan and dream, not only what’s possible, but what God will make possible.

  • Lions don’t want to eat straw

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    8 min read

    The Incarnation Is More Radical Than We Care To Admit. Advent 2A |  Isaiah 11:1-10 Isaiah 11:1-3 A shoot shall come out from the stock of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of his roots. The spirit of the Lord shall rest on him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel…