Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

generosity

  • Being Mary

    Mary anoints Jesus’s feet. Judas argues for the prudent use of resources. Why do we always side with Judas?

  • There’s an interesting thing that happens when we talk about opportunities to be generous. Something nags at our brains to ask: What if…?

  • We try to follow almost everything. Except this. We really don’t want to listen to how Jesus wants us to love.

  • The Good Wine

    When Jesus keeps the wine flowing at the wedding party, we get a chance to adjust our expectations in a surprising way.

  • Jesus famously turns water into wine. But the greatness of the miracle is not that he can do it. But that he does.

  • When Jesus tells us about the problems with wealth, we get hung up on whether or not he means us. But that isn’t the point. For the Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost – Proper 23B Collect Lord, we pray that your grace may always precede and follow us, that we may continually be given to good…