Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

discipleship

  • The raising of Lazarus gives us the perfect window to see beyond the present crisis, to see how God’s grace and freedom persists.

  • Lent, that season before Easter, is known for abstaining and fasting. But it is more than that. It’s a learning lab with a deadline. Lent as a 40-Day Love ChallengeAsh Wednesday | Matthew 6:1-6,16-21 Today is the first day of Lent. Like many Christians, all over the world, I got up and focused on devotion.…

  • A New World

    The Transfiguration comes as a strange interlude. But its brevity reveals its true purpose is to reorient the disciples to their new journey.

  • In John 1:29-42, we have an alternative call story–one that opens up the possibility that Jesus came to offer different leadership.

  • The Epiphany is not just the celebration of some dudes bringing presents. It’s the revelation that God’s grace is suitable for all of us.

  • The season we often use to anticipate Christmas can be an invitation to both plan and dream, not only what’s possible, but what God will make possible.