Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

calling

  • The challenge of the call stories for us is that we might not understand exactly what they mean for us. We are called to enjoy a life of service.

  • The question offered by the angel encounters that surround Jesus’s birth is not what we would do, but what we do.

  • Loud

    Of what are we afraid? One of the things that strikes me about this week’s reading from Mark (10:46-52) is how much loudness is seen as a problem. The man is shouting and the disciples want him to be quiet. Who among us can’t relate? The person in the checkout line shouting at her kinds,…

  • How Jesus calls us to act now to do something audacious, in spite of ourselves, precisely because GOD is audacious a Homily for Epiphany 3B  |  Text: Mark 1:14-20 Calling I love these call stories: these stories of Jesus calling the disciples to follow him. I think they’re pure gold for us. They may not be…