1. Grammar … imperfect tense …
a. I ate – perfect tense, complete
b. I was eating, when the doorbell rang – imperfect tense – eating wasn’t finished.
c. Teaching English as a foreign language: referred to as “past continuous” or “past progressive.”
d. On-going status …
2. From whence cometh faith?
a. Romans 9:16 So it depends not human will or exertion, but on God who shows mercy.
b. Hebrews 11:1 Faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
3. What is faith
a. Three little ponies … [poem by Arthur Guiterman - from The Best-Loved Poems of jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, edited and introduced by Caroline Kennedy.
b. Faith and too much church!!!! [see above, poem by Emily Dickinson, "Some Keep the Sabbath by Going to Church"
c. Calvin: information isn’t faith.
4. The reminder:
a. Those who live by faith have life.
b. Those who live by alternatives have things.
c. Without faith, the soul defaults to power: Cameron movies – “Aliens” “Terminator” (Skynet), “Titanic” “Avatar”
d. Power becomes god for those without faith.
e. Faith transcends all false gods.
f. The lies will stop.
g. So let’s stop the lies now!
h. Where there is power, there is no God … and the more raw the power, the greater the lie.
i. God is found where there is love!
j. Tiny love, big love.
5. Where does it end … “Titanic
a. Jack is by the clock, on the stairway, waiting for
b. Jack to Rose – “don’t let go” – theme … and it takes two to hang on …
c. Psalm 63:8 My soul clings to you; your right hand upholds me.
d. Don’t let go.
e. But if you should, God will hold you.
f. Romans 8:38ff …
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