My AM sermon today will be on Hebrews 11:1-2, describing what faith is. Here’s a longer definition from Phil Hughes on what v.1 is driving at and I’ve added space for emphasis…
[Faith is a] conviction
that is not a static emotion of complacency
but something lively and active,
not just a state of immovable dogmatism
but of vital certainty
which impels the believer to stretch out his hand, as it were
and lay hold of those realities on which his hope is fixed
and which, though unseen, are already his in Christ.
Hoping to hold out this kind of faith today…