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Br. David Vryhof

Psalm 27:1-6

Most preachers, when they reflect on their preaching, will find that they have a few themes that they come back to again and again.  For me, one of those themes is the question of what it means to believe.  I return to this theme repeatedly because I want to challenge the popular understanding that believing means holding a certain set of statements or claims to be true – statements, for example, about God or Jesus or the Bible or salvation.  When we speak of believing in this way, Christianity becomes a matter of the head rather than of the heart.

We know that faith does not spare us from the pain of human existence.  Believing does not guarantee that we will never have cancer, or suffer the loss of a loved one, or lose a job, or watch a business fail.  Believing does not solve all our problems or make us rich or popular or successful.  It does not exempt us from the experience of pain and suffering.  It does not make everything right. Read More