Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

hospitality

  • When Jesus visits with the woman at the well, we are invited into an instructive moment; to be radically present to build uncommon intimacy.

  • The concept of welcome is generous and novel today. It used to be normal. That difference is important for us to recognize.

  • Lunch

    Episode 29. June 17, 2022

  • As followers of Jesus, we are called into discipleship. But that doesn’t mean being more righteous than our neighbors but merely generous. Proper 8A  |  Matthew 10:40-42 This short gospel reading doesn’t seem like much. But if you’ve been following along the last few weeks, then you know it is anything but simple. Not even…

  • Jesus sends his disciples out before they’re ready to do the work they don’t understand. A lot like us. Because that’s the work for us to do. Proper 6A | Matthew 9:35-10:23 Some time ago. A few years before seminary, before I preached my first sermon or proclaimed my first gospel, I was getting up…