hope – Drew Downs

Confidence and Grace

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1 min read

It’s a weird feeling: having confidence in one’s own ability and belief in God’s grace. Especially when they meet.

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Being surrounded by bad news is exhausting. Trying to do good things can feel fruitless. And yet we know it is right.

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8 min read

When we hear Jesus’s apocalyptic talk, we often shut down. Which means we avoid hearing the good news itself.

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3 min read

We hear Jesus talk about division and the destruction of the Temple with a sense of fear while he offers hope.

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We often isolate the need to persist from the experience of oppression. But it is the demand for justice that fuels it.

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The parable of the mustard seed is a treasured teaching we seem woefully unable to embody. At least we wish we could.