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Posted by David Carroll
Listen to the mp3 audio: Hebrews 11:20-40, February 27, 2005You are reading through this list of heroes of the faith in Chapter 11 of Hebrews and you are amazed at the exploits of these people. By faith, they escaped the edge of the sword, raised the dead to life, fought back armies against impossible odds. Boy, let me in on that! But right in the middle of verse 35 the excitment turns on a period--by faith others were tortured, were slain with the sword, stoned, sawn in two. So what's the deal? Evidently faith is not the factor that determines
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Posted by David Carroll
My nephew Hal has a web site and a blog where there is a page of links and my site is included. I was perusing it the other day and noticed he had put a comment next to my name saying "My uncle David is, in fact, pro-slavery." A statement like that, although potentially libelous, is at least provocative and perhaps even serves me and my site well by sending people here who would not have come otherwise. So I thought I would return the favor and perhaps send some folks to Hal's site.Anyway, I write this to defend myself.
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Posted by David Carroll
Listen to the audio: Hebrews 11:7-19, February 20, 2005Did you know Noah was a preacher? Yep, says so in the Bible. Problem is, by our standards today, he wasn't too successful. Don't be too hard on him though, he is all of our great, great, great, great ... granddaddy. Anyway, his family did get saved. Noah must have been considered quite the nutcase, building an ark there hundreds of miles from any navigable water.Faith will change your value system. If you are worried whether everything will work out when you take that next big step of faith and obey God, don't
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Posted by David Carroll
Listen to the Podcast: Hebrews 11:4-6, February 13, 2005Ours is not a blind faith. Rather the Bible makes sound and logical arguments for the faith. The Bible is a book of truth, the truest book there ever was but it is not just a book of historical facts, stories, commands and truth assertions. It is a book of reason. I heard John Piper make this point and the excitement of such an idea makes me hunger to understand every sentence, even every word in the Bible. There is great reason behind why verse 6 says that it is impossible to please God without faith. The most
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Posted by David Carroll
Listen to the mp3 file: Hebrews 11:1-3, February 6, 2005Hebrews chapter 11 is the faith chapter. We are going to work our way through this one carefully over several weeks. Faith is fundamental to the Christian life and you need to know what it is, how it works, and how you live by it. The first three verses of this chapter are monumental in importance, we find out what faith is, but with some very curious words. Faith is substance and evidence. How something as nebulus as faith have substance? And what about evidence, I thought faith was a result of evidence not
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