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The Adventure of Faith
FromBishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
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The Adventure of Faith
FromBishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
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15 minutes
Released:
Mar 7, 2004
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Podcast episode
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We have a God of adventure, a God who is always out ahead of us. Faith, in the Biblical sense of the term, is not primarily the acquiesence to propositions; rather, it is an attitude of trust in the God who calls us beyond ourselves. We witness this faith in Abraham's willingness to follow where God leads, and we see it too in the disciples' willingness to follow Jesus on the path toward the cross. Do we settle for what we know and control, or do we venture into the darkness, trusting in what God promises? This is the great question that our readings for the second Sunday of Lent propose to us.
Released:
Mar 7, 2004
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
Patience, People: St. James reminds us that an essential element of the Christian life is waiting. As the farmer waits for the precious yield of the earth, so the believer waits while Christ does his mysterious work in the world. Thus we must learn the virtue of patient e... by Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies