As pastor of The Presbyterian Church in Basking Ridge, and as a thoroughly imperfect follower of Christ who is seeking to love and serve and be obedient to him with all that I am, this will be a place to reflect with you on faith. 

Where is God in our midst?  Can being part of a community of faith, joining together with others who believe and who doubt and who seek, make a difference?  And as individuals on the journey, who is God calling us to be and what is God calling us to do? 

Scripture reminds us that, “faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.”  (Hebrews 11:1)  To believe in God is a step of trust, a leap of faith.  There is no way around that.  I remember a professor in seminary who once during class held an apple in his hand and held it high in the air.  He said to us, ”Do you have faith that this apple will fall when I drop it?”  We all laughed, and said that we did.  He let go of the apple and of course it fell.  He caught it with his other hand.  He then looked at us and said, “You being confident that the apple would fall had nothing to do with faith.  Gravity is a scientific fact.  It’s a proven law of physics.  Faith had nothing to do with it.  You didn’t have faith it would fall, you knew it would fall.”

What might it mean for you and for me to trust in a God that can’t be proven in quite the same way one can prove the law of gravity?   What might it look like for us to put our very lives, and our future, and our church, in his loving and almighty hands?   What might it mean for us to have that kind of faith?

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