discipleship – Drew Downs

Between Lent 3 & 4 (Year A)

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6 min read

After the woman at the well, Jesus gets rebellious at home, drives a wedge between his followers, and takes on the leaders.

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1 min read

The image Jesus often uses of “the harvest” is useful and, at times, disorienting. Here’s why it can really work.

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2 min read

Jesus’s encounter with Nicodemus is a story rich with possibility, value-judgment, and expectations. Reading it that way helps.

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6 min read

The Transfiguration is not merely an event: it is a turning point in the work of teaching Jesus has been doing.

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2 min read

In the passage right after the Beatitudes, Jesus describes his followers as being like salt. And a light, too.

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3 min read

Before we can talk about being “the salt of the earth” we must remember the Beatitudes and our poverty in spirit.