Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

power

  • In Focus

    We aren’t just distractible. We focus on the wrong stuff from the start. Making stories of God’s love into opportunities to judge.

  • In the Passion, we receive a story of innocence murdered. But that story’s foundation is all so much temptation.

  • The parable of the lost sons is not just a story of forgiveness. It is also a story of power. One uses his to forgive. And the other….

  • Christians have long called Jesus their king as a way of describing his place. The trouble is just how much that limits him.

  • The Last Sunday after Pentecost – Proper 29BJohn 18:33-37 Collect Almighty and everlasting God, whose will it is to restore all things in your well-beloved Son, the King of kings and Lord of lords: Mercifully grant that the peoples of the earth, divided and enslaved by sin, may be freed and brought together under his…

  • We are all familiar with the saying “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” – John Dalberg-Acton. We also know that it doesn’t come from the Bible but from a historian, John Dalberg-Acton. OK, we know the first part, I had to look up who actually wrote it. This is also the stuff…