Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

John 18:33-37

  • As we celebrate the final Sunday of the church year, we engage with matters of kingship, authority, and why we get it all mixed up.

  • The challenge of Christ the King Sunday is that we need to deconstruct the nature of kings and kingdoms and then tell it again.

  • As Jesus’s conversation with Pontius Pilate unfolds, we see his bewilderment at what is going on, because kings must have power.

  • Christians have long called Jesus their king as a way of describing his place. The trouble is just how much that limits him.

  • The Last Sunday after Pentecost – Proper 29BJohn 18:33-37 Collect Almighty and everlasting God, whose will it is to restore all things in your well-beloved Son, the King of kings and Lord of lords: Mercifully grant that the peoples of the earth, divided and enslaved by sin, may be freed and brought together under his…