Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

trust

  • Beacons of Christ in a stormy world

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    6 min read

    Being a beacon of Christ doesn’t mean we need to be perfect. It means we still need to help others even when we feel lost.

  • A Love Superpower

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    9 min read

    The Transfiguration is the showstopper. But what happens when Jesus comes down the mountain reminds us what Jesus is really doing.

  • They Take Offense

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    8 min read

    When Jesus goes home, he’s surprised by how he’s treated. How they’ve judged him without really knowing him. This is our contrast for what it means to love. They take offense and we move on from there. Proper 9B  |  Mark 6:1-13 When we moved down to Georgia some years ago, we knew fitting in…

  • This Got Me Thinking About Our Society

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    7 min read

    Cynicism is destructive. And it’s turning our society into something we don’t want. But solutions are all around us. We just need to listen to the voices which help us see them. Listening to podcasts is like research. Most of the time, you get what you expect and it informs your worldview. But then there…

  • Who actually thinks you can believe everything on the internet?

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    2 min read

    Seriously. Who? Because I’ve never actually met such a person. At the beginning, in the ’90s, there was a lot of trust. It was new. People were just learning to express themselves. Then there was little trust. It quickly filled with swamp and opinion. And then people started to do amazing things. Like Wikipedia and…

  • How Come I Never Hear About Christian Hope?

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    6 min read

    Christian Hope? Really? If I didn’t know any better, I’d think Christians were the world’s most pessimistic people. The world is always ending. But not in that good way. In the hold-off-the-armies-of-satan way. The depictions of Christians in the news are often our most deplorable people. The ones always after minorities to change their behavior…

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