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In one of former President Jimmy Carter’s best-selling books, Living Faith, Carter talks about how faith affects every aspect of his life. He originally wanted to call that book, Faith Is a Verb...

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Philip Yancey defines faith as: "Believing in advance in something that will only seem logical when seen in reverse." ...

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Oswald Chambers once wrote, "Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading." ...

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Vance Havner once observed, "Faith will not always get for us what we want, but it will get what God wants us to have."...

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Several months ago a tornado struck the small town of Piedmont, Alabama. Twenty people were killed. Most of them were inside the Goshen United Methodist Church at the time. Among those killed was the ...

Faith Honored

Communion Reward Faith honors God and God honors faith! If we abide in His will and trust Him implicitly the Lord will reward our confidence. An incident from the lives of Robert and Mary Moffat under...

Faith And Fear

The African impala can jump to a height of over 10 feet and cover a distance of greater than 30 feet. Yet these magnificent creatures can be kept in an enclosure in any zoo with a 3-foot wall. The ani...

Faith Exercised

Inseparable Twins A Christian man worked each day transporting tourists across a lake. On occasion he would present the Gospel and its implications for life in a most unusual way. He had painted the w...

Illustration: Communion of Faith, Hope and Love

Faith, hope and love look at the past, future and present regarding what Jesus has done, will do and is doing right now at this very minute....

Illustration: Faith, Daring

Dorothy Parker once wrote of the dancer Isadora Duncan, “There was never a place for her in the terrible slow army of the cautious. She ran ahead, where there were no paths.” What a wonderful tribute ...

Illustration: Faith

Imagine a young girl asleep on the second story of her home. She awakes one night—middle of the night—and there is the smell of acrid smoke. She stumbles to the door and opens it to a sheet of fire. T...

Faith Promises

The Chemistry of Faith A man who works in the field of chemistry pointed out that if you mix hydrogen and oxygen, the well-known components of water, you get no reaction-and no water! But if you add a...

Christianity, Faith

"For me, Christianity is not a leap into the dark but a step into the light." (Josh McDowell)...

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While most flowers bloom only in the day, some bloom only at night. The night blooming Cereus is the most well known example. The flower called Four O'clock opens in the late afternoon. Moon flowers u...

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During World War II, preacher and theologian Helmut Thielieke, came to his bombed out church in Stuttgart. Because of the damage, he had to gather the church in the choir loft. He began his sermon by ...

Illustration: Science and Faith

Science and true faith tend to corroborate one another....

Faith And Confidence

A little girl named Mary was in bed one night preparing for lights-outs. Prayers had been said and Mom had hugged her. Perhaps in an effort to put-off sleeptime, Mary asked her mother why God created ...

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After the 1988 Winter Olympics, a television show featured a group of blind skiers being trained for slalom skiing. Paired with sighted skiers, the blind skiers were taught on the flats how to make ri...