Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

wholeness

  • We think we want to grow. So why don’t we? Why can we be obsessed with the outcome and yet never achieve it?

  • Forgiving GOD

    how our understanding of forgiveness is too small a Homily for Proper 19A  |  Text: Matthew 18:21-35   The volume of forgiveness When Peter asks about forgiveness, about the volume of forgiveness, it triggers a cascade of central teachings to our faith. Teachings that are the foundation of everything. On the surface, it is a simple enough…

  • a Homily for Trinity Sunday Text: Matthew 28:16-20 Incomplete We return this week to the Gospel According to Matthew, for this writer’s resurrection story. We normally don’t think of this passage that way; as a story of resurrection. We’re focused on the writers we call Luke and John. Their accounts are different. More story-like. These…