Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

discipleship

  • Harvest — and timely engagement

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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.

  • Night time as the right time

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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.

  • Listening

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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.

  • Salty (Epiphany 5A)

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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.

  • Still poor in spirit

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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.

  • Legacies

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    6 min read

    Jesus invites fishermen to become disciples. To accept the transformation of their lives. Which is the point.