SERMON SNAPSHOT: Sunday, February 16, 2025

St. Augustine once penned, “God does not expect us to submit our faith to [God] without reason, but the very limits of our reason make faith a necessity.” I am not sure many of us ponder if faith in God and God’s purpose for our lives is genuinely a necessity. We tend to think in more concrete terms like food, water, resources, and emotional/physical support. But faith – that tends to be a luxury afforded to moments of idle wonderments and foxhole prayers.

This Sunday we have an opportunity to open our sacred texts and hear what the Hebrews writer declares about faith. Eugene Peterson’s The Message translation of the text reads: “The fundamental fact of existence is that this trust in God, this faith, is the firm foundation under everything that makes life worth living.” I am hopeful that as we read, study, and pray together in preparation for worship, God will deepen that faith depicted in Hebrews to those early Christians who in their own right had much to fear.

There is much to fear – no doubt – but come sail away with me this Sunday with the assurances of God’s promises at our back!

Onward and upward,
Steve