The second Sunday of Easter at the Patterson Avenue Baptist Church in Richmond, Virginia features a message titled: “Sarcastic Laughter.” The primary text is John 20:19-31 -(with the story of Thomas’ encounter with Jesus a week after the resurrection. We also looked at the story of Abraham and Sarach and the unbelievable promise that they, late [...]
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Hope and Faith – two quotes from William Sloane Coffin
Two quotes from William Sloane Coffin, author of Credo: “Hope is a state of mind independent of the state of the world. If your heart’s full of hope, you can be persistent when you can’t be optimistic. You can keep the faith despite the evidence, knowing that only in so doing has the evidence any [...]
Abraham
by Mike Feazell As a boy I heard the story of Abraham recounted at least once a week, and it usually went something like this: “God told Abraham to go, and he went. He didn’t ask questions; he didn’t hesitate; he just packed up and left everything he knew—country, family—and went. That’s how all of [...]
Faith and Hope
Throughout Advent I am sharing thoughts from Bill Coffin, author of Credo – and several other books. Bill was a prophet, pastor, and gadfly in the oinment of many. His thoughts have always challenged and inspired me. He writes: If faith puts us on the road, hope keeps us there.”
The Faith of Christ, by C. Baxter Kruger
The following article was brought to my attention by Steve McVey on his blog site. It addresses well an issue in biblical interpretation which, when understood, takes all the responsibility for salvation (including that for faith) off of YOU and ME, and places it on the only one who could actually make it happen, namely [...]
Living by Faith
Living by faith means living in response to God’s continual movements of grace. Living by faith means that we trust Jesus to save us—to unite us with God. Living by faith means that we allow God to unite us to one another in a new humanity—the family of God. Living by faith means that we [...]
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Doubters and Skeptics Take Note
In his book, Man’s Search for Meaning, Victor Frankel argued that the “loss of hope and courage can have a deadly effect on man.” As a result of his experiences in a Nazi concentration camp, Frankel contended that when a person no longer possesses a motive for living, no future to look forward toward, that [...]
Fear and Faith
We all live with fear. At one level, that’s a good thing. It is great that we have a bit of fear when walking across several lanes of traffic at the height of rush hour. Sometime, however, our fears can become irrational and unhealthy. Like when we sit in our homes all day, afriad to even [...]
