By Hannah Persall Svebakken As a child, I knew my dad was for me. I knew he was proud of me. I knew he loved me. He regularly told me these things. He regularly talked with me and listened to me. I knew what was important to him and I knew he cared to know what was important to me. We …
My hands gripped the steering wheel, as the initial shock of the impact subsided. I watched a small crowd of curious bystanders gather on the sidewalk and heard a faint hissing sound from somewhere underneath my car. I was in a foreign country and had just been T-boned. I’d maneuvered down this narrow lane hundreds of times. In …
I’ve always grappled with just what faith means. Yes, it is “believing God”, but yet there seems to be much more richness to the meaning. Today, we are going to look at some faith definitions. Some are mine. Some are the treasured thoughts of others. “Faith is submission to the persuasion of God.” “Faith is simply surrender; …
