Month: August 2020

We’re talking about faith, the third element in Jesus’s triad of weightier matters of the law. We’ve been trying to find a functional, working, operational definition of faith. We’ve been dancing around many questions about faith—about where it comes from and what it does and so forth. Last week, we heard a binary definition of…

What is faith? Where does it come from? What does it do? Can it be quantified—is there great faith and little faith? How much faith do you need for it to be effective? What is “effective” faith anyway? Is faith qualifiable as good, bad, ineffective, useful, etc.? Is your faith the same as my faith?…

Don: We are still covering the woes to the Pharisees, found in Matthew 23. Specifically, we’ve studied two “weightier matters of the law”—justice and mercy, and today we’re moving on to faith. Some people call it faithfulness. Or as it’s translated in Titus 2:10 (in some translations) fidelity, which is an interesting concept and something…

Last week we spoke about confession and our role, if any, in the process of forgiveness. Must we confess to be forgiven? Does God want our contrition in return for his mercy? And why does God forgive us for his sake? For as long as there have been Christians (and quite frankly even before that)…

We’ve been talking about mercy, or what we’ve called the path to forgiveness—a trait and a characteristic that Jesus calls a “weightier” matter of the law. Last week, we saw that in Biblical verse after verse God says that he forgives us for his sake. We’re trying to understand what exactly that means. That God…