discipleship – Drew Downs

Love—we have to learn it

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1 min read

We often treat love like an emotion that we merely experience. But Jesus commands us to love, to treat it like a behavior we are to learn.

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6 min read

As Jesus describes himself as the vine and we are the branches, he compels us to reexamine the way we approach our world.

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8 min read

We’re conflicted by the thought that God is responsible and also so are we, making it about our own obsessions with getting it right.

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2 min read

The gap between the fourth and fifth Sundays of Easter highlights the nature of the love Jesus commands his followers to share.

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8 min read

In the resurrection story from Luke, we are reminded, not of the fear of the future, but of not knowing what to do—when we actually do.

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4 min read

Before Jesus appears to the disciples in Emmaus, he shows up to a pair of them on the road. This shapes the character of Easter for us.