Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

Holy Spirit

  • Wrestling with the presence of the Spirit as Jesus describes her in this week’s gospel is a challenge we often avoid.

  • This week’s gospel invites us to ask a deep question about faith and the Holy Spirit. What if she’s in us now?

  • The Trinity is hard. Understanding it. And living it. But that is precisely what Jesus is inviting us to work out.

  • Pentecost is a moment of empowerment. But what are we being empowered to do? We often use the confusion to avoid doing anything.

  • Pentecost is one of the oldest feasts of the church. It has something to do with the Holy Spirit. And liturgical churches switch everything over to red. But what is it about? And what happens if we pay attention to what it means for us now? Questions: What is your experience of the Holy Spirit?…

  • It is easy to get distracted by the rushing wind and tongues of fire. But the true revelation is that there is a force that would propel us at all.