What is faith? What does it look like to have faith? Is faith a matter of trust, or belief, or hope, or choice? I bet that if we took a survey of the sanctuary today – we’d probably come up with at least a dozen different definitions and understandings of faith, and they probably all wouldn’t agree with one another. Even though it’s kind of our thing, faith is a complex word and idea to define. How do we explain something that is on the one hand a gift and on the other a choice that we … [Read more...]
Return to Me: Sermon on Hosea
“Return, Israel, to the Lord your God. Your sins have been your downfall!” – Hosea 14:1 As a father of two young girls who love books, and love to be read to – I read a lot. Bedtime, morning, afternoon, you name the time and there is a good chance a book is being read in the house. There are undoubtedly a lot of cringe-worthy books in publication (books I eventually need to hide for my own sanity), and there are a lot of cute or funny books that we love to read, but it really is remarkable how … [Read more...]