FAITH is believing in things even when common sense tells you not to. From the movie Miracle On 34th Street
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EXPRESSING FAITH? The late Archbishop Temple, when he was primate of England, once told this story. One morning, in a house where he was a guest, he heard from the kitchen a voice singing lustily,…
GIVE ME THE EYES OF FAITH Manley Beasley tells the story of a friend who had a rescue mission. He prayed, "God, I need two hundred dollars. Oh, God, I need two hundred dollars." One…
TRUST GOD I said, "God I must know where you are leading me. I ask to view Thy plans. I have need to see." He said, "If you must see, and my plans you must…
I DID NOT GET YOUR NAME Almost a century ago, an old man was travelling on a train in France. A much younger man, sitting across from him in the same compartment, watched as the…
DOUBT AND FAITH Doubt sees the obstacles; Faith sees the way! Doubt sees the darkest night; Faith sees the day! Doubt dreads to take a step; Faith soars on high! Doubt questions, "Who believes?" Faith…
THE EYE OF FAITH One of Gutzon Borglum's great works as a sculptor is the head of Lincoln in the Capitol in Washington. He had cut it from a large square block of stone in…
Adversity | Busyness | Discouragement | Failure | Faith | Frustration | Sports | Trial | Worldliness
RUN WITH THE HORSES Every once in a while, when I get tired of living by faith, I drive twenty-five miles southwest to Memorial Stadium in Baltimore and watch the Orioles play baseball. For a…
RADIANT FAITH According to an old story a man was walking down a dark street when he met another with a staff and a lantern. The odd part of it was that the man was…
THE INVISIBLE KITE Recently I heard an appealing analogy for the faith experience. It seems that a small boy was flying a kite high up in the sky. Soon a low- drifting cloud encircled the…
FAITH Without faith we are as stained glass windows in the dark. Anonymous
FAITH TO TELL THE TRUTH Kim Duk-Soo will never forget November 20, 1950. That was the day Communist troops found him hiding with his father in a root cellar. Kim, now the administrator of Presbyterian…
AFRICAN INSIGHT INTO FAITH An African missionary was translating John's Gospel into Songhai. When the missionary couldn't find a word to translate "to believe," he asked a national African how to translate it. The African…
CROSS-CULTURAL DEFINITION OF FAITH Some of my fellow students, after living with inhabitants of Papua New Guinea for years, finally won their confidence. These missionary friends were hard put to find a Papuan equivalent for…
FINDING FAITH D. L. Moody once said, "If all the time that I have spent praying for faith was put together it would be months. I thought that some day faith was going to come…
WAITING AND FAITH Faith is a way of waiting -- never quite knowing, never quite hearing or seeing, because in the darkness we are all but a little lost. There is doubt hard on the…
TRUSTING JESUS The following is an excerpt from Robert Farrar Capon's The Parables of the Kingdom, Zondervan, 1985, p. 29: And faith is something that, throughout this book, I shall resolutely refuse to let mean…
HOW FAITH WORKS Professor George Forell of the University of Iowa never ceases to remind those to whom he speaks and writes that telling a person to have faith is like commanding an insomniac to…
CHILDLIKE TRUST When I sailed the first time from America to Japan (where I worked as a missionary), I took a Danish freighter. The voyage was stormy. The captain, a Christian, told me one night,…
ANSWERED PRAYER This is about a man named Ioan Teodosiu who was arrested at his work place in Cluj- Napoca, Romania, in December, 1981 . . . the day after he had been interviewed by…
