Category: Daily Devotion
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What is Faith? (And What It’s Not): What Faith Is
If faith is not a strong feeling, wishful thinking, or a positive mental attitude, then what is it? The author of Hebrews provides us with a sure, clear answer: “Faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen” (11:1). Faith, in other words—true, biblical faith—produces a certainty regarding the unseen…
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What Is Faith? (And What It’s Not): Faith is Not a Positive Mental Attitude.
In The Power of Positive Thinking, Norman Vincent Peale offers the following advice on how he thinks people should start their day: “First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, ‘I believe,’ three times.”1 He doesn’t say in what or in whom to say you believe, because in his view, it doesn’t really matter. The…
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What is Faith ? (and what it’s not): Faith is not accepting something without evidence.
Another prevalent view is that Christian faith requires us to remove our brains and put it under our seats—in short, to stop thinking. Behind this opinion is the assumption that if you were to ever examine the evidence for Christianity, you would discover that it’s flimsy; therefore, the only way to be a Christian is…
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What is Faith? (And What it’s Not): Faith is not a Religious Feeling.
Many men and women claim to be people of faith, yet when you ask them why, they say, “Well, I just have a strong feeling inside of me that I’m a Christian.” By this standard, someone may deny the deity of Jesus Christ, repudiate His atoning death, and disbelieve His bodily resurrection and still be…