Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

judgment

  • Is it worth seeing in the theater?

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    3 min read

    As a movie person, I love going to movie theaters. So why don’t we go anymore? Perhaps we should stop pretending it is about the movies.

  • Rational response or irrational?

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    1 min read

    When we paused the movie, my 7 year-old got in her pajamas without prompting. In that moment, I thought about how I actually miss the fights. The bedtime fights. The I don’t want to put on my pajamas I hate brushing teeth And Please can’t I stay up later Fights No fights. She just does…

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  • Childproofing Church

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    8 min read

    Order, stumbling blocks, and what real Christian community looks like a Homily for  Proper 18 A  |  Text: Matthew 18:15-20   what we mean by sin When Jesus speaks to the disciples in this passage, He speaks of sin against each other. This isn’t so much fault-finding, which we all do so easily, but sin-naming.…

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  • Section 2: Judgment–Tearing Down Mansions

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    7 min read

    This is the second of a tw0-part series covering David Rudel’s Who Really Goes To Hell?—The Gospel You’ve Never Heard. Rudel looks at how Scripture (The Bible) and our understanding of GOD’s purpose and of Jesus (The Gospel) intersect and where they diverge. My introduction can be found here and Section 1 is here. In…

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