Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

love

  • While John 3:16 has become iconic, it has also become a distraction from the message Jesus shares about the love of God.

  • Jesus’s exchange with Peter at the end of John is the most human, vulnerable moment in the gospels. And it is essential for us.

  • Jesus talking about love in the midst of crisis is always relevant. Jesus saying each other is the way to know God is even more so.

  • Lead with Love

    We want Jesus to teach us how to love like it takes a methodology or more faith than we have. Instead, Jesus shows how that misses the point. Jesus and the teaching of uncommon forgivenessProper 22CLuke 17:1-10 We jump into the story with the apostles shouting “Increase our faith!” It makes it all sound random.…

  • We make lots of excuses not to love. They’re all trash. Every single one. Because Christians have no excuses to avoid loving other people.

  • Bad Economics

    Jesus keeps teaching us about the limits of transactional thinking — and the life-giving beauty of sacrifice in his way of love.