Month: September 2020
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Faith in Joseph’s Bones
Last week we studied the stages of faith as seen in Jacob’s life. We looked at his spiritual development along lines similar to the psychosocial development models pioneered by Piaget and Erickson. Spiritual crisis seems to evolve faith. We were toying with the idea that everyone has faith: It’s just that we’re all in a…
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The Stages of Faith of Jacob
From the story of Abel we’ve seen that faith is not simply something magical that can save our lives. Indeed, it could be argued that faith cost Abel his life. From the binding of Isaac we’ve seen that we need education about faith to see it grow and mature. We also saw that the laying…
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Faith In What?
We tend to see faith as a thing, a commodity, a substance; something like money to be invested and allowed to grow so that when you need it, it can be drawn upon and spent. But we know from the story of Abel that faith is not a magic elixir available to get us out…