Drew Downs

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Good Friday

  • True Love

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    7 min read

    Love for the Lawless and Crucifying the Blameless Good Friday C |  Luke 22:39-23:56 Then Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said to him, ‘Before the cock crows today, you will deny me three times.’ And he went out and wept bitterly.   WHEN I FIRST DENIED JESUS When I first…

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  • When Evil Wins

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    4 min read

    I never could wrap my head around “Good Friday”. Bad Friday made more sense. These days, Evil Friday speaks to me even more. There is nothing good about the crucifixion. Save your fancy atonement theories for another day. And don’t get antsy and start talking about a resurrection. Get your butt back here and sit…

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  • Exposing Beauty

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    6 min read

    The ugliness is the brutality, not the day itself: it isn’t ugly. Not the sacrifice. Not what Jesus does in showing off the destructiveness of our obsession with power. Walking to his death defiantly humble, leaving Jerusalem displaying the same character with which he entered.

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  • Those Women, That Morning: Friday of Holy Week

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    2 min read

    “As soon as it was morning” Read the Text: Mark 15:1-41 There is a startling character to the Passion story. The Jewish authorities are bloodthirsty. Pilate, speaking for Rome, is strangely indifferent. The soldiers humiliate Jesus. The disciples have deserted Jesus entirely. And the women, many women who followed Him, watch from a distance. I’m struck by…

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  • Faith In Spite of Death

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    5 min read

    a Sermon for Good Friday Text: John 18:1-19:42 By what authority? There’s a telling moment toward the beginning of Holy Week that explains the drama that is unfolding. A moment that involves a simple enough pair of questions: By what authority are you doing these things? Who gave you this authority to do them? Authority.…

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  • Watch the Stations of the Cross

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    1 min read

    Whether you have a deep attachment to the stations of the cross or don’t even know what they are, check these out. Frank Logue, Canon to the Ordinary of the Diocese of Georgia has put together a visual stations of the cross. Click the link and head over!

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