Epiphany 3C – Drew Downs

Why we’re afraid to listen

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9 min read

In proclaiming the year of the Lord’s favor, Jesus invites us to see, not an ideal future, but an actual, present command for life.

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3 min read

Preaching on the preaching of Jesus requires we decide whether we are the subject or the agent or the observer and we are all three.

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2 min read

When Jesus returns home, he heads to the synagogue where he reads from the scroll of Isaiah and makes everyone uncomfortable.

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7 min read

Our focus on being together can get in the way of making it happen–and doing the very thing we’re called to do.

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3 min read

In reading of Jesus’s visit to the synagogue, we are given a mirror to hold up to ourselves and see what we’d rather not.

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1 min read

Gospel, like “good news” is loaded. And WE don’t always like it. But the question was never whether we like it.