Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

Proper 5B

  • Jesus pushes us on the theological convictions we take for granted—and invites us to develop a greater trust in our common work together.

  • We struggle with talking about family because we have conflicting ideas about the idea, and more importantly, how we embody it.

  • We focus this week on the way Jesus redefines family. And why this whole story gives us trouble in a world devoted to the nuclear family unit.

  • This week, we skip over an important piece of the story—that the threat the crowds have on Jesus’s ministry—and the calling of the apostles.

  • This troubling passage about family isn’t about who is in the family, but about what being family means for the world.

  • For SundaySecond Sunday after PentecostProper 5B Collect O God, from whom all good proceeds: Grant that by your inspiration we may think those things that are right, and by your merciful guiding may do them; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and…