Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

Epiphany 4B

  • Willing To Be Amazed

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    8 min read

    A recurring theme in the gospels is that people are astounded and amazed by Jesus. How many Christians actually are?

  • Where are we in this?

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    5 min read

    This week’s gospel can be read shallow or deep. But if we go deeper, will we like what we find? About Jesus or ourselves?

  • Only the Beginning

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    2 min read

    Moving from the call stories to Jesus’s miraculous ministry might leave us with the wrong impression that this is normal.

  • Between the Third and Fourth Sunday of Epiphany (Year B)

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    8 min read

    Before we leave the call stories behind, we should really deal with what they mean for us. And for the gospel itself.

  • Beacons of Christ in a stormy world

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    6 min read

    Being a beacon of Christ doesn’t mean we need to be perfect. It means we still need to help others even when we feel lost.

  • Immediately

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    7 min read

    Mark’s gospel uses the word “immediately” a lot. But what if it isn’t literal or a figure of speech? What if the evangelist is getting us to see beyond our reality–to where the kin-dom already is? How the immediacy of Jesus reveals the presence of the kin-dom Epiphany 4B | Mark 1:21-28 Time travel. It’s…