Great Faith — 10/1/26 (Part 1)
The centurion and the Syrophoenician woman illuminate faith as certainty, authority, abundance, and expectation in the face of apparent contradiction.
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The centurion and the Syrophoenician woman illuminate faith as certainty, authority, abundance, and expectation in the face of apparent contradiction.
Faith is examined through expectation: what we assume will happen after prayer reveals what we have come to believe about God.
A reflection on stillness, speech, confession, and renewed thinking as ways of learning to rest in and agree with God’s truth.
An exploration of identity in Christ, feeling, fear, and prayer: living from the reality of acceptance and union rather than striving toward it.
A Christ-centered distinction between faith and positive-thinking systems, focusing on agreement with what God says is true.

A look at the Bible as one story of fall, restoration, and communion with the Father, using seed, root, fruit, and sowing and reaping as a unifying pattern.
The following is a conversation between me and a pastor that began after a sermon raised questions for me about faith, the promises of God, and how we understand unanswered prayer. Names, dates, and identifying details have been removed. The conversation has…
Be Still The moment you quiet the outer world, the inner world begins to speak. You allow room for the Holy Spirit to speak to you above all of the noise. He is within you. You have become one with Him. When…
Be Still and Know that I am God. Be still. Not because the world is quiet, but because you must become quiet enough to enough to hear what has always been true.. Worry has never solved a single problem. Not one. It…