Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

discipleship

  • In picking Mary, God shows not just who the invitation to grace is for, but how we get a similar invitation.

  • Peter mistakes Jesus’s talk about who he is as a question of identity. But Jesus is always talking about relationship.

  • The Transfiguration is a story about following, trusting, and becoming – in light of our confusion and fear.

  • Jesus’s parable of the weeds among the wheat challenges us to see evil in the desire to pluck weeds when we know it’ll kill the wheat.

  • Jesus offers us rest – through transformation. Rest from the swirling chaos, confusion, and dissatisfaction with a simple idea: change it.

  • What does it really mean that Jesus comes with a sword to bring division? We first need to realize we’re looking at our own world wrong.