Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

Pentecost

  • It is easy to get distracted by the rushing wind and tongues of fire. But the true revelation is that there is a force that would propel us at all.

  • The Holy Spirit isn’t a fixer – like we’re gangsters who need someone to clean up our mess.

  • Dealing with love isn’t just for weddings: it gets to the very nature of God. From the Presiding Bishop’s sermon at the royal wedding last week to the Pentecost itself, we’re finding the very nature of God isn’t out there and other, but right here among, in, the very binding of us together. What actually…

  • The message of Pentecost is about the power of God. But that doesn’t mean what we normally think it means because God’s power isn’t over us, it’s power with us. In Pentecost, both the medium and the message matter Pentecost  |  Acts 2:1-21 I don’t know if you heard, but there was a big wedding…

  • Pentecost, with its loud, violent wind, its flaming tongues, and its utter chaos of voices which resound into a symphony of unity in diversity, is about GOD so utterly changing the game we still aren’t sure how to play it.  The Spirit reveals and reconciles Pentecost  |  Acts 2:1-21 As Jesus ascends, two men appear and…

  • Our Pentecost

      While we wait for Superman and our friends build bomb shelters a low thunder rumbles, proving our certainty justified. The forecast calls for rain: 100%. The cloud with the lightening bolt flying out comically warns us: an image so innocent and besides, we’ve been through storms. We know what to expect. We wait. The only…