Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

relationship

  • Up and Down

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    3 min read

    What we understand as up and down is relative to our location. Locations that, themselves, are relative to each other—it is all relative.

  • Authority and the nature of our relationships

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    2 min read

    We often treat authority, like our understanding of power, as disembodied and other, rather than based in our relationships.

  • One with God

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    6 min read

    On Trinity Sunday in Year A we read the Great Commission. A great opportunity to see what our relationship is made of.

  • We must start with love

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    6 min read

    We hear all these other things about who we are and what we’re supposed to be, but there is one place we all must start: Love beyond ourselves. Of all things, we must start with love. It is our hermeneutic, our fundamental. Our North Star and compass. Love is the start and our predictor. Most…

  • Membership

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    7 min read

    When I used to walk into a church for the first time, I’d show up within 5 minutes of the start of worship. I’d try to find a seat in the back, and I would just sort of find my way in. I didn’t really want to be shown how to worship there. I knew…

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  • Being Where GOD Will Be

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    8 min read

    That is our certainty. It is found being where GOD is. Where GOD says GOD will be. It isn’t found in our stated beliefs or creeds or political affiliation or what our Sunday School teachers taught us about GOD: it is about how we treat the powerless and the defenseless.

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