At least that is the way I see it.
Don’t get me wrong, I love to listen to good sermons as much as anyone else, but listening to them is like sitting in a rocking chair. It gives a sense of motion but never really gets you anywhere.
The Apostle Paul understood rocking chairs and he is the one who coined the phrase “Faith without works is dead.”
Rocking chair dead. Ear-tickling dead. Wasted energy. Full of sound and fury but signifying nothing.
“Nothing.” Now THERE is an empty word. “Nothing” is an ambivalent term. Sometimes nothing can be good…like when the dentist is looking for a cavity…or an MRI is looking for a growth. Nothing can often be a encouraging word.
But most times it isn’t. When referring to bank accounts, progression on a job site, scoring touchdowns, working to bring a child back from the clutches of drug addiction, or the results of a pregnancy test for a desperately barren couple “nothing” is discouraging.
But nothing from faith is ever a good result. The Bible tells us that faith is “subst ...
