Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

discipleship

  • We struggle to see why the money-changers in the gospel are a problem for Jesus. Because we don’t want to see the problem itself.

  • The return of temptation is a reminder of what our resistance to temptation is really about. Keeping faith in a life full of hope.

  • It sometimes seems impossible to motivate people to do what they don’t want to do. But cats have a way better excuse than we do.

  • Stories of Jesus’s temptation are great opportunities for us to examine what tempts us. It goes much deeper than we usually think.

  • This week’s gospel is a whirlwind of action. But it also reveals a pattern of discipleship—a pattern set up by Jesus’s own discipleship.

  • How to Pray

    When we gather together, placing ashes on our foreheads to remember our mortality, we join a very public and common witness.