sin – Drew Downs

On sinners and eating with them

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1 min read

Jesus undermines the prohibition of relationship between the ritually pure and the condemned because grace is more important.

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8 min read

When people ask Jesus for a hot take on a recent scandal, he interrogates their assumption that the victims brought it on themselves.

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2 min read

The human tendency to blame, to punish, or assume the worst — to compare — is at the center of Jesus’s call to cut it out.

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7 min read

There is both sin and grace at the heart of the church’s tradition of Good Friday. Our first task is acknowledging this truth.

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5 min read

The popular phrase “war is hell” is close. But unlike hell, we think we can win it. Do it. And be called heroes for killing many, many people.

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7 min read

The challenge of stumbling into Matthew 18 without its context is that we get the point Jesus is trying to make completely backward.