Sermon: The Courage of Faith
Sermon Series: The Book of Ruth: Keeping Faith
First Reading: Romans 5:1-11
Second Reading: Ruth 3

"Faith is better understood as a verb than as a noun, as a process than as a possession. It is on-again- off-again rather than once-and-for-all. Faith is not being sure where you're going, but going anyway. A journey without maps. Paul Tillich said that doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith... Almost nothing that makes any real difference can be proved. I can prove the law of gravity by dropping a shoe out the window. I can prove that the world is round if I'm clever at that sort of thing—that the radio works, that light travels faster than sound. I cannot prove that life is better than death or love better than hate. I cannot prove the greatness of the great or the beauty of the beautiful. I cannot even prove my own free will; maybe my most heroic act, my truest love, my deepest thought are all just subtler versions of what happens when the doctor taps my knee with his little rubber hammer and my foot jumps. Faith can't prove a damned thing. Or a blessed thing either."

-FREDERICK BUECHNER, Wishful Thinking

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