Drew Downs

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Following Jesus

  • Blind Beggers (Eating Scripture)

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    1 min read

    Eating Mark 10: 46-52 For the last three chapters, Jesus has been taking us to Jerusalem, preparing us for what is to come. And this is the last stop; Jericho. Here he meets a blind man and we learn the last piece of the discipleship arc. All from a story we normally mistake for just another…

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  • Get Busy Dying

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    6 min read

    a Homily for Proper 20B Text: Mark 9:30-37 Location, location, location Three times Jesus foretells his death in the gospel we attribute to Mark. Three times. In chapters 8, 9, and 10. Each one has a similar impact: Jesus’s teaching is misheard, misunderstood, and ignored by the disciples. Last week, we had the first of…

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  • Who do you say that Jesus is?

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    2 min read

    In Sunday’s gospel story, we had the famous pair of questions Jesus asks: Who do people say that I am? Who do you say that I am? As I was writing about this idea for our parish newsletter, I realized something important. These two questions have two more hidden questions, or more precisely, two hidden…

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  • Why do you follow?

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    5 min read

    a Homily for Proper 13B Text: John 6:24-35 Why do you follow Jesus? For Christians, this should be an easy enough question. But it isn’t for most of us. Or at least there’s trouble in the answering. Why do you follow Jesus? For many of us, we had a moment in which our belief in…

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