Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

discipleship

  • 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.

  • Sometimes what we see in the world isn’t real. Or more precisely, real in the way we imagine it. Because we aren’t actually listening.

  • What these three disciples witness on the mountaintop is beyond most of our comprehension. And we, too, focus on the wrong things.

  • The mountaintop event is saturated with the disciples’ confusion. And is the crux of what happens after they come down the mountain.