Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

Mark 3:20-35

  • Jesus pushes us on the theological convictions we take for granted—and invites us to develop a greater trust in our common work together.

  • We struggle with talking about family because we have conflicting ideas about the idea, and more importantly, how we embody it.

  • We focus this week on the way Jesus redefines family. And why this whole story gives us trouble in a world devoted to the nuclear family unit.

  • This troubling passage about family isn’t about who is in the family, but about what being family means for the world.

  • For SundaySecond Sunday after PentecostProper 5B Collect O God, from whom all good proceeds: Grant that by your inspiration we may think those things that are right, and by your merciful guiding may do them; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and…

  • Making Home

    Jesus’s return home in Mark reminds me of the movie musical, The Greatest Showman. God’s dream is made, not by or for the powerful, but by the misfits for all of us. And for it to work, we must all have a part to play. Jesus and “The Greatest Showman” Proper 5B  |  Mark 3:20-35…