Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

healing

  • Three Stories

    In these stories, Jesus makes miracles. But that is only possible because people fail to see the change we can make.

  • When Jesus gives sight to the man born blind, faith leaders try to destroy all the good that Jesus is doing.

  • The story of Jesus healing a man’s blindness should be joyous. Instead, faith leaders are making everyone miserable.

  • The In-Between

    In healing ten people with leprosy in the borderlands between Samaria and Galilee, Jesus offers us a way to see life anew.

  • In this evocative story from the midst of the borderlands, Jesus places himself as a border-crosser and boundary-breaker.

  • The borderlands are as much a character in the story this week as any of the people. What we make of that is essential.