Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

discipleship

  • Pentecost is a moment of empowerment. But what are we being empowered to do? We often use the confusion to avoid doing anything.

  • In the Passion, we receive a story of innocence murdered. But that story’s foundation is all so much temptation.

  • In Palm Sunday, we get the bittersweet realization that we’re not going to get to kill our enemies and assume power.

  • Jesus challenges us to see beyond asking why things happen and toward what we are called to do in light of it.

  • The Baptism of Jesus is the beginning of the story. And it reminds us of the central theme of the gospel is new life.

  • First

    Going first is exciting and frightening: challenging and hopeful. It is also almost always where the magic happens.