Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

urgency

  • Apocalyptic Urgency—for Advent 1A

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    3 min read

    Jesus tells his followers to do something more than prepare: to feel an urgency, to be ready, for the need is urgent and ongoing.

  • Literal Urgency

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    8 min read

    Jesus’s apocalyptic vision seems confusing. Until we focus on what he’s trying to say rather than what we hear.

  • Breathing Stillness

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    9 min read

    In the holiday season, we hear Jesus’s invite us to listen and hear in the midst of chaos—a call, not to ending it, but being in the center of it.