Blessing – Drew Downs

Blessing is an Invitation to Build Something Better

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9 min read

In the Beatitudes, we find ourselves pushing against our own priorities, against the priorities the world pushes upon us, to divide us, despise us.

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3 min read

Jesus opens the sermon on the mount with an evocative recasting of the nature of humanity’s relationship to God, and ultimately, to one another.

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3 min read

The first challenge in Jesus’s vision of blessing is it counters the common one. The second is that the powerful like things the way they are.

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9 min read

The saints help us see the alternative vision that Jesus offers: that we can actually love as we are loved and give as God gives.

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8 min read

The damning truth of it is that so many Christians reject Jesus’s approach to blessing. It’s not a competition, but a co-op.

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5 min read

When talking about God’s blessing, we are necessarily confronted with the idea that we always seem to start talking about possessions.