Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

Proper 25A

  • Love all the way down

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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.

  • To be at least something like God

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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…

  • Reluctance and Commands—for Proper 25A

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    2 min read

    When Jesus tells the lawyer that loving God and our neighbor as ourselves is the greatest commandment, are we truly with him?

  • Tracing two lines back

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    7 min read

    The blessed servant or the righteous king lineage. When these two stories compete, which wins? And what does this say about us?

  • Love Against the Wind

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    8 min read

    Why we know to love, but not how or when. We often think of love as the antidote to chaos, but it isn’t so related to the chaos. Proper 25A  |  Matthew 22:34-46 This year, we gathered at the river for Convention. Down in Jeffersonville and New Albany, just across the Ohio River from Louisville,…

  • First, Love

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    7 min read

    How Jesus’s subversive call to love continues to challenge us a Homily for Proper 25A  |  Text: Matthew  22:34-46  Commander Love Love GOD. Love neighbor. This is the basis for all of our teaching. We can see it, too. When we read those first five books of our sacred scripture, those written in Hebrew, we…

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