Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

Epiphany LastA

  • Mountain Talk — Command and Love In a Time of Fear

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    9 min read

    The story around the Transfiguration helps us better understand what is being said up that mountain — and what it all means for us.

  • Forgetting to Listen — for Epiphany LastA

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    3 min read

    In the Transfiguration, the very voice of God tells them to listen to Jesus — at the very time when they aren’t and will not out of fear and hubris.

  • Becoming Holy

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    6 min read

    There’s a weirdness on that mountain. If we’ve learned anything from our scripture, it might be to not go up mountains. Don’t seek those mountaintop experiences. Don’t do it. Weird stuff happens there. There: anything. Bushes burn, laws given, messiah’s transfigured, and voices come from nowhere to tell you stuff. Bright lights change our appearances…

  • After the Mountaintop: listening/following Jesus

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    6 min read

    a Sermon for Epiphany LastA Text: Matthew 17:1-9 On another mountain We skip ahead to another mountain; more climbing, more experience with Jesus. Not a place of preaching. No Sermon on the Mount. This time is supernatural. Three followers go; the inner circle. The executive committee. Jesus invites them to follow Him up the mountain.…

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