Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

Proper 26B

  • Love People

    This week, we have two options for seeing Jesus’s Way of Love entering into our world, and in both, the challenge is for us to try to see it.

  • This week we jump ahead to Jerusalem — or to the gospel of John — and find ourselves in the midst of a different story.

  • The Greatest Commandment doesn’t answer a question: it responds to it. Which makes this a story of embodied love.

  • For the Twenty-Third Sunday after PentecostProper 26B Collect Almighty and merciful God, it is only by your gift that your faithful people offer you true and laudable service: Grant that we may run without stumbling to obtain your heavenly promises; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,…