Sermons and Biblical Studies

Study the Scriptures and you will find that we are not going to have more faith by counting the promises of God. Faith does not rest upon promises. Faith rests upon character. Faith must rest in confidence upon the One who makes the promises. Jesus, Author of Our Faith, 5.

Knowledge of God: basis for faith; Church: concept of God All things else being equal, the destiny of a man or nation may safely be predicted from the idea of God which that man or that nation holds. No nation can rise higher than its conception of God.… A church is strong or weak just … Continue reading “FAITH:
FOUNDATION OF;”

If our faith is to have a firm foundation we must be convinced beyond any possible doubt that God is altogether worthy of our trust.… As long as we question the wisdom of any of God’s ways our faith is still tentative and uncertain. While we are able to understand, we are not quite believing. … Continue reading “FAITH:
FOUNDATION OF; KNOWLEDGE OF GOD: BASIS FOR FAITH”

True faith is not the intellectual ability to visualize unseen things to the satisfaction of our imperfect minds; it is rather the moral power to trust Christ. To be contented and unafraid when going on a journey with his father the child need not be able to imagine events; he need but know the father. … Continue reading “FAITH:
FOUNDATION OF; HEAVEN: CERTAINTY OF”

True faith rests upon the character of God and asks no further proof than the moral perfections of the One who cannot lie. It is enough that God said it, and if the statement should contradict every one of the five senses and all the conclusions of logic as well, still the believer continues to … Continue reading “FAITH:
FOUNDATION OF; FAITH: GIFT OF GOD”

A father and his nine-year-old son have a close and trusting relationship. The father reminds his boy that in a month he will be observing his 10th birthday. “Son,” he begins, “I know that you want a bicycle. I am going to order a brand new red and white bicycle, and it will be here … Continue reading “FAITH:
FOUNDATION OF; FAITH: EXPECTATION”

Faith is at the foundation of all Christian living, and because faith has to do with the character of God, it is safe from all vacillations of mood. A man may be believing soundly and effectively even when his mood is low, so low that he is hardly aware that he is alive emotionally at … Continue reading “FAITH:
FOUNDATION OF; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONS”

Faith in Jesus is not commitment to your church or denomination. I believe in the local church; I am not a tabernacle man. I believe in the divine assembly. We ought to realize that we are, as a group of Christians, a divine assembly, a cell in the body of Christ, alive with His life. … Continue reading “FAITH:
FOUNDATION OF; BIBLE: AUTHORITY OF; CHURCH: AUTHORITY”

… faith is good only when it engages truth; when it is made to rest upon falsehood it can and often does lead to eternal tragedy. For it is not enough that we believe; we must believe in the right thing about the right One! Acts 4:12; Romans 15:13; 2 Timothy 1:11–12 Renewed Day by … Continue reading “FAITH:
FOUNDATION OF”

Unbelief says: Some other time, but not now; some other place, but not here; some other people, but not us. Faith says: Anything He did anywhere else He will do here; anything He did any other time He is willing to do now; anything He ever did for other people He is willing to do … Continue reading “FAITH:
EXPECTATION; UNBELIEF”