Earlier this week, at 11 pm (well past my bedtime) I was awakened out of a sound sleep with a text message. Usually at that late hour it’s about one of my patients at the hospital, some resident or nurse calling with a question or because something’s gone wrong or to give me an update.…

To further our study of faith communities I propose for consideration today three faith groups: The Jews of the Old Testament, the kingdom of heaven faith community as outlined by Jesus in the gospels, and the faith group of Revelation 7—the uncountable multitude:  After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no…

We are winding down our study on faith with a look at faith communities. Why do they exist? Why are we drawn to them? And what should we expect from our community of faith? Last week, we talked about stages of community building, referencing the experience of the early Christian Church in Acts 2 and…

The meeting began with a short video describing the Kumbh Mela, a Hindu pilgrimage and festival that attracts tens of millions of devotees. What is a community of faith? What defines it? How do you know one when you see it? And what, if anything, should you expect a community of faith to do for…

What does it mean to live a life of faith? James wrote: You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone. In the same way, was Rahab the prostitute not justified by works also when she received the messengers and sent them out by another way? For just as the body without…

We’ve been speaking of faith, and discovered that precisely what we have long thought of as faith is, in fact, what I call antifaith. The notion that through our efforts of prayer, piety, devotion, and what I call the exercise of our faith we can influence the God of the universe to act on our…