Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

Scripture

  • I had no idea I, too was going to hell!

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    1 min read

    David R. Henson wrote today about a missed opportunity to attack evil: evil in the form of stay-at-home dads.  We are clearly where sin resides.  Read about it here!

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  • Jesus likes it when you squirm

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    4 min read

    I love when Jesus kicks our butts in the gospel.  Seriously.  Some people want shiny, happy gospel lessons for Sunday morning, full of sunshine and affirmation for hard work we’ve done not screwing up our lives completely.  Not me.  That’s my vision for lame. So this morning, the lectionary dialed up a juicy one: Matthew…

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  • Forgiveness and 9/11

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    1 min read

    This morning I was at the Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration in Rome, Georgia.  What a day to make one’s first appearance as supply!  But they were gracious and welcoming and I think we made some good worship! Of course, preaching on such a day as this, it is impossible (or possible, but cowardly) to…

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  • When GOD doesn’t provide

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    5 min read

    If you say the phrase “God will provide” in the Downs house, you’ll likely get your mouth taped shut.  Not by me, but by my wife: she’s the pragmatist.  “God doesn’t pay the electric bill!” she’ll retort. Since I was let go, we’ve been facing this very issue; trusting in GOD while trying to understand…

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  • Lent is about trust

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    1 min read

    In the first Sunday of Lent, we read about the Temptation of Jesus.  But is Jesus really tempted?  Or is there something else going on?  Who really needs to worry about temptation?  And what is Lent really about? If you were at St. Paul’s on Sunday, you may already know, but the rest of us…

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  • No Retaliation

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    1 min read

    My sermon for Proper 7A (yesterday) is up here.  It deals with our culture of retaliation and Jesus’s encouragement to see another alternative; an alternative that we have trouble seeing because we are so committed to violence and retaliation. I thought it was a little spicy.  What do you think?

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