love – Drew Downs

There’s quite a lot we can do

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5 min read

There imperative of the gospel forces us to deal with more than who we are; we are forced to examine our actions in everything we do.

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6 min read

There’s a thing we miss about the great commandment: to love God and our neighbors as ourselves. And that is that we are made of love.

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6 min read

Our gospel this week returns to ideas of love and authority. Two concepts that seem, at first, to have nothing to do with each other. And yet…

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We find it easy to excuse retaliation or xenophobia as natural or necessary—an exception. But the rule is love. It is our command.

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7 min read

In his exploration of authority, Jesus confronts those confronting him, and reveals a way of being in the world that can save us all.

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7 min read

The challenge of stumbling into Matthew 18 without its context is that we get the point Jesus is trying to make completely backward.