Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

discipleship

  • Trust in Love

    In the Ascension, we are invited to reflect on the departure of Jesus from his disciples, and why it is that we always hate goodbyes.

  • As we approach the end of Easter, we are confronted by the teaching Jesus offers—to keep loving long after he is gone—but instead we worry.

  • 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.

  • Inseparable

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

  • 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.

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