Category Archives: Faith

Plus ultra

Posted on December 3, 2016 by vincentsmithauthor

In the Spanish city of Valladolid, where Christopher Columbus died, there’s a monument to the great navigator. Its most interesting feature is a statue of a lion destroying one of the Latin words that had been part of Spain’s motto … Continue reading →

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Unconquerable hope

Posted on November 11, 2016 by vincentsmithauthor

Booth Tucker was a Salvation Army officer in Chicago. One evening he preached a sermon about the sympathy of Jesus. Afterwards a man said to him, ‘If your wife had just died, like mine has, and your babies were crying … Continue reading →

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It’s not just the hearing that makes faith grow

Posted on September 29, 2016 by vincentsmithauthor

When Mother Teresa visited Australia, some years ago, a Franciscan monk was assigned to be her guide and gofer. He was thrilled at the prospect and dreamed of how much he would learn from her. But he never got the … Continue reading →

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Faith is having the courage to face our doubts

Posted on September 29, 2016 by vincentsmithauthor

I’ve had the privilege of meeting three recipients of the Victoria Cross, our highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy. I asked one of them what heroes feel when they do their heroic acts, and he told … Continue reading →

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Faith has to be practical

Posted on September 29, 2016 by vincentsmithauthor

I heard about a young woman who took her fiancé home to meet her parents. After dinner the father took him aside asked him what he did for a living. He replied that he was a student of the Bible. … Continue reading →

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All things are possible,’ even if not in the way you expect

Posted on September 29, 2016 by vincentsmithauthor

Tony Campolo once received a telephone call from a woman who, in despair, had asked him a week earlier to pray in church for her husband who had cancer. The call was to tell him her husband had died. Tony … Continue reading →

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Belief or unbelief – it’s an act of faith

Posted on September 21, 2016 by vincentsmithauthor

I never cease to be amazed by the arrogance of those who contemptuously dismiss people who believe in God as being intellectually deficient in comparison with their superior intelligence. Whichever way you look at the origin of all that exists … Continue reading →

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‘Remember in the darkness what you knew in the light.’

Posted on April 29, 2016 by vincentsmithauthor

Many of us have had the experience of waking up in the early hours of the morning and finding ourselves overwhelmed with fear and negative thoughts. Those early hours are when our natural rhythms are at their lowest point in … Continue reading →

Posted in Faith, Fear, Feelings, God, God with us, God's faithfulness, God's love, Hope, Storms of life, Trials and testings | Leave a comment

Even though we can’t see God

Posted on April 29, 2016 by vincentsmithauthor

I think many people dismiss the idea of God because of the Sunday school type language that believers often use, which, though appropriate for six year olds, is totally unconvincing to people who’ve grown up in a scientific age, presenting … Continue reading →

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Physics and metaphysics

Posted on April 26, 2016 by vincentsmithauthor

The essential difference between beliefs based on scientific proof and those based on faith is revelation. So, for example, we believe that the earth travels around the sun because mathematical and astronomical evidence shows that it’s so. But belief in … Continue reading →

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