discipleship – Drew Downs

Radical Love and Life—for Proper 5A

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2 min read

Returning to an earlier point in the gospel of Matthew, we are invited to a moment in which Jesus is doing one radical act after another.

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3 min read

Jesus pushes back at the impulse to focus our attention on one another, to the people who are good, while forgetting our love for everyone else.

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9 min read

The doctrine of the Trinity is a challenge to the new and experienced alike. What it offers us is not the security we think, but that we can know.

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8 min read

While many treat this moment in John 14 as Jesus laying out the trinitarian formula, it is for us, something far greater: a greater sense of purpose.

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2 min read

What Jesus tells his disciples is the certainty they seek is in the keeping of his commandments, which should be far more evident to us than it is.

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As much as the church loves to speak of sheep and shepherds, it remains an image that both helps and hinders because many won’t listen.