Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

Temptation

  • Temptation and the Need for Discipline

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    3 min read

    We have a tortured view of discipline in the United States. One that is shamefully unChristian. But, like us, it can be changed.

  • The Means Are the Ends—for Lent 1C

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    2 min read

    In the temptation in the wilderness, we get to see the challenge of power — not for Jesus exactly, but for every one of us instead.

  • True Abundance

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    7 min read

    The return of temptation is a reminder of what our resistance to temptation is really about. Keeping faith in a life full of hope.

  • The real temptation

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    3 min read

    Stories of Jesus’s temptation are great opportunities for us to examine what tempts us. It goes much deeper than we usually think.

  • Into the Wild

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    7 min read

    Mark doesn’t tell us what is tempting Jesus in the wilderness. But we know what it is about. Because we know what tempts us.

  • At the root of all temptation

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    6 min read

    When we address the temptation of Jesus in the wilderness in the midst of church, do we dare confront what is at the root of it all?