Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

faith

  • Our Time

    John the Baptist and Andrew offer a hopeful vision of faith, adaptation, and trust at a time of great change.

  • It’s a weird feeling: having confidence in one’s own ability and belief in God’s grace. Especially when they meet.

  • Jesus tells stories that engage our assumptions; and drive us to consider what it is that we’re really avoiding.

  • This parable about persistence reveals that the point isn’t to always work hard. The point is that faith can demand it.

  • The question of inheritance is deceiving when it comes to faith. There’s something we’re trying to say without saying it.

  • Not In?

    The dangers of a seemingly anti-semitic passage and the challenge of dealing with what it is actually trying to do.