We’ve been talking about faith: What it is, how it can be used. Jesus called it one of the “weightier matters of the law.” Today we’re turning to the faith of Moses. By faith Moses, when he was born, was hidden for three months by his parents, because they saw he was a beautiful child;…

Last week we studied the stages of faith as seen in Jacob’s life. We looked at his spiritual development along lines similar to the psychosocial development models pioneered by Piaget and Erickson. Spiritual crisis seems to evolve faith. We were toying with the idea that everyone has faith: It’s just that we’re all in a…

From the story of Abel we’ve seen that faith is not simply something magical that can save our lives. Indeed, it could be argued that faith cost Abel his life. From the binding of Isaac we’ve seen that we need education about faith to see it grow and mature. We also saw that the laying…

We tend to see faith as a thing, a commodity, a substance; something like money to be invested and allowed to grow so that when you need it, it can be drawn upon and spent. But we know from the story of Abel that faith is not a magic elixir available to get us out…

We’re talking about faith, the third element in Jesus’s triad of weightier matters of the law. We’ve been trying to find a functional, working, operational definition of faith. We’ve been dancing around many questions about faith—about where it comes from and what it does and so forth. Last week, we heard a binary definition of…

What is faith? Where does it come from? What does it do? Can it be quantified—is there great faith and little faith? How much faith do you need for it to be effective? What is “effective” faith anyway? Is faith qualifiable as good, bad, ineffective, useful, etc.? Is your faith the same as my faith?…