Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

exorcism

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

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    3 min read

    In Jesus’s visit to Capernaum, we are confronted with our own stuff about the world. But the context offers us a different look at things.

  • 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?

  • The New Authority

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    5 min read

    Jesus shows us why our ideas of power are only half right a Homily for Epiphany 4B  |  Text: Mark 1:21-28   Authority Today’s story about Jesus leaving the seashore and heading to the synagogue to teach is obviously about authority. It says so. Twice. But it gets a little complicated. Yes, it is about authority…

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  • Saved from our own demons

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    5 min read

    a homily for Proper 7C Text: Luke 8:26-39 Listen to the homily here and read along below The Man I feel bad for this guy. We don’t know his real name. He is cast out from the city, living naked, possessed by many demons, despised and reviled. If we are being honest, we use him…

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