This sermon:

How Much Faith? or Faith in Who?

We like to hear of happy endings. Thankfully the Bible story of creation has the happiest ending ever possible, and it is guaranteed for all who truly believe in Jesus Christ. This ending is freely available to all people regardless of ethnic heritage, tribe, culture, colour or tongue. So why do relatively few people truly believe? Is it that people don’t trust the Bible? Can we really trust what the Old Testament prophets said? Can we trust what Jesus says? Can we trust what the apostles recorded for us? Our emphasis in life rests on what we trust or have faith in. Faith is not a religious thing, because people have faith every time they get in a car, bus or airplane. And they trust that it has been safely built and properly maintained. It may surprise many people that the Bible truths can be trusted. This is worth checking out!

I don’t have enough faith to believe that this wonderful intricate creation was an undesigned accident. There surely has to be an intelligent designer of this complex finely tuned world. But the most wonderful truth is that God knows that I will stuff up, that I will never be perfect while on earth; and he graciously accepts me, the sinner that I am – worts and all.