Drew Downs

Tag: Blessing

  • Blessed—and our eternal struggle with worth

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    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.

  • Blessed

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    Blessed

    The Beatitudes challenge us to see the love in vulnerability, hope in fear, and in the blessing of justice.

  • The Beatitudes (Epiphany 4A)

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    The Beatitudes (Epiphany 4A)

    This famous list of blessings is both beloved and often ignored. Because it is challenging to our status quo.

  • Blessings and Woes

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    Blessings and Woes

    In the sermon on the plain, Jesus offers a teaching that feels opposite to our expectations – to see what we’re missing.

  • Glory

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    Glory

    It is like losing the plot The hallmark of our faith is humility. Jesus teaches us to be humble, serve, and seek first the kingdom of God. So what then do we do with fame, wealth, and glory? Usually, we take them as opposite. Until we have them. Then we generally call it a “blessing…

  • In My Backyard

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    In My Backyard

    In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus pushes us to examine our place and our sense of community in an atomized and dysfunctional world.

  • In the Mix

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    In the Mix

    In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus invites us to see how they are already blessed by God to be the way the kin-dom comes into the world.

  • Exuberant Generosity

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    Exuberant Generosity

    The miracle at the wedding at Cana isn’t the most important part of the story. It’s what Jesus shows us about God’s dream for the world. Making enough into enough Epiphany 2C | John 2:1-11 When I first served at a table alone as a priest, it was the kind of weekday mass we do…