Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

Resurrection

  • As people of the resurrection, we can both love the concept and also refuse to accept that it has anything to do with our lives.

  • Moving from Pentecost to Trinity Sunday means, once again, switching gospels. To one with some valuable context.

  • The ashes we use in Lent, to remember our place, are not generic. It isn’t proverbial. It is about our life and death.

  • The famous question from the Sadducees to Jesus about the resurrection is particularly haunting to modern Christians.

  • Raised

    Notice that we don’t say Jesus rose from the dead. The resurrection is not the work of Jesus. It is the work of God in Jesus.

  • The thing about faith is that we don’t just want to be better. We want to want to be better. And that is where the magic is.