Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

Luke 4:14-21

  • In proclaiming the year of the Lord’s favor, Jesus invites us to see, not an ideal future, but an actual, present command for life.

  • Preaching on the preaching of Jesus requires we decide whether we are the subject or the agent or the observer and we are all three.

  • When Jesus returns home, he heads to the synagogue where he reads from the scroll of Isaiah and makes everyone uncomfortable.

  • Our focus on being together can get in the way of making it happen–and doing the very thing we’re called to do.

  • In reading of Jesus’s visit to the synagogue, we are given a mirror to hold up to ourselves and see what we’d rather not.

  • Today

    When Jesus comes home, he isn’t treated like a hero. But really, why would they? He challenges them. We just take a different path to reject the plan. With Jesus it is not about when it happened but when it happens Epiphany 3C  |  Luke 4:14-21 I just want to make sure we’re all on…