The people in the hall of faith have diverse personalities. Esau is a man of the land, a hunter given to emotional outbursts. Jacob is a stay-at-home mothers boy. Moses is insecure, timid, and riddled with doubt. Gideon is also doubt-ridden but is bargaining and analytical. Each of these—and all the others in the faith…

We’ve been looking at stories of faith in the Bible characters mentioned in Hebrews 11. We’ve been seeking a working definition of faith. Central to our discussion has been the question of the relationship between the senses and faith. It has been proposed that faith can only operate when the senses are inactive—that if something…

Last week we talked about the relationship between faith and the senses. We’ve tried to fashion a working definition of faith. Where does it come from? What can you do with it? You might even ask: Why are we spending so much time talking about it? Does it really matter? But the more we look…

We’re still talking about faith, one of the weightier matters of the law. Today we move on to the story of Gideon and ask ourselves the question: Do we confirm our faith with our senses? Must our faith be underwritten with some kind of a physical or natural sign? The context for the story is…

The Book of Hebrews names a number of people as being of great faith. We are looking at their stories to see how they might educate and inform us as we live our lives of faith as well. The context for today’s discussion is the relationship between doubt and faith. Last week, we left Moses—one…

Don: We’re talking about faith in the context of the statement by Jesus that faith is one of the “weightier matters” of the law. Justice and mercy were the other two weighty matters. Last week we began to look at the faith of Moses by looking at the faith of his parents and asking ourselves…