Proper 5A – Drew Downs

Extraordinary Mercy—Centering Our Love On the Unloved

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9 min read

Jesus hangs out with sinners, heals a woman, and raises someone from the dead. Here’s why that frustrates the people we should pay less attention to.

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2 min read

Returning to an earlier point in the gospel of Matthew, we are invited to a moment in which Jesus is doing one radical act after another.

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8 min read

When Jesus transgresses boundaries, he exposes the way people focus on the wrong thing. Like when we do it, too.

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4 min read

The challenge of preaching is the challenge of communicating. We don’t always know what would be simple to understand.

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2 min read

In these stories, Jesus makes miracles. But that is only possible because people fail to see the change we can make.

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6 min read

As we enter into Ordinary Time, we are thrown into the middle of the story in Matthew. At a moment of great confusion.