Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

For Sunday

  • After the Transfiguration, Jesus has what appears to be an outburst of frustration. But is it? Maybe they are more revealing than that.

  • Weird Love

    In the Sermon on the Plain, Jesus challenges us to see love, not as something to be received, but as something to give.

  • In the sermon on the plain, Jesus offers a teaching that feels opposite to our expectations – to see what we’re missing.

  • Jesus almost breaks their nets and sinks their boats. We refuse to recognize that great abundance is not objectively good.

  • Jesus’s return home goes exactly as he expects. Which is to say, the people’s reactionary response is quite predictable.

  • In reading of Jesus’s visit to the synagogue, we are given a mirror to hold up to ourselves and see what we’d rather not.