Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

Tuesday of Holy Week

  • This Tuesday of Holy Week 2019

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    When the authorities confront Jesus in the Temple, they find a popular teacher warning them not to choose the way of death.

  • This Tuesday of Holy Week

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    Jesus’s confrontation at the Temple challenges us to see past their questions of authority, but the reason for the questioning. Jesus ducks their questions because they are questioning the authority of God. On Sunday, Jesus rode into Jerusalem in a parody of authority. And after the crowds died down, he took a quick look inside…

  • By What Authority?

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    Who authorized Jesus to teach? We shouldn’t forget that the chief priests and the scribes (in other words the Temple leadership) ask Jesus a pretty fair question: ‘By what authority are you doing these things? Who gave you this authority to do them?’ They didn’t authorize this. They don’t know him. Who is Jesus to…

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