discipleship – Drew Downs

Messianic virtue

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4 min read

Jesus rejects Peter’s protection; not because it is wrong, but because it itself is a rejection of true messianic virtue.

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7 min read

For a gospel passage that lays the foundation for some big tradition, shouldn’t we take the context more seriously?

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1 min read

There’s a way we talk about saving in the church; like its something we’re supposed to want but also totally don’t.

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6 min read

We love to say that politics and religion doesn’t mix, but religion is political by definition. They can’t be separated.

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7 min read

We encounter the Transfiguration with our own skewed vision of the world; and our precious place in it.

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2 min read

The challenge of discipleship is not only becoming better or less bad. It is becoming self-aware enough to do either.