healing – Drew Downs

Unbind Him and Let Him Go — for Lent 5A

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3 min read

In the raising of Lazarus, Jesus defies the expectations of him and opens the people to see the situation in a completely new way.

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1 min read

Part of the way many people of faith talk about healing denies the humanity of the person. Jesus is about equity and inclusion.

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3 min read

This is a section I cut out of this week’s sermon comparing the two main responses to COVID with what Jesus does in healing the lepers.

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8 min read

The grace Jesus offers in these healing stories is a grace of transformation, of change, of the true hope of learning to be new.

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5 min read

The most difficult part of this week’s gospel isn’t the healings Jesus makes possible so much as what the healings mean for us.

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1 min read

When we long to be healed, praying for God to heal us of what ails us, do we dare acknowledge that we are supposed to change?