Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

love

  • Our hearts don’t just follow our treasure. They’re linked. Which means the gospel demands we love and share with others.

  • We try to follow almost everything. Except this. We really don’t want to listen to how Jesus wants us to love.

  • Weird Love

    In the Sermon on the Plain, Jesus challenges us to see love, not as something to be received, but as something to give.

  • In the sermon on the plain, Jesus offers a teaching that feels opposite to our expectations – to see what we’re missing.

  • For SundayThirteenth Sunday after Pentecost Collect Grant, O merciful God, that your Church, being gathered together in unity by your Holy Spirit, may show forth your power among all peoples, to the glory of your Name; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever…

  • Learning how to love when it isn’t forced. Or optional. It is quite truly the only way we all can live full and true lives. Doing what needs to be doneEaster 6B | John 15:9-17 Jesus commands us to love. In American culture, that plays like an oxymoron. We think command and love don’t belong…