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People at the Cross and Tomb

Doubting Thomas, Growing FaithJohn 20:19-31

John 11:16

“Let us also go, that we may die with him.”

Courage

John 14:5

“Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?”

Honesty

Doubt is …

“Faith in two minds”Os Guinness

Mar Thoma Church, India

Traditionally thought to have been founded by Thomas in AD 52

John 20:25

“Unless I see the nail marks in his hands and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.”

Peter Enns

When you go out into the world and say “it’s not working,” maybe that is a signal. It’s not God who no longer works, it’s your idea of God that needs work. Maybe you are for the first time being called, as C. S. Lewis put it so well in the Narnia books, to go “further up and further in.” That’s where doubt plays a powerful role.

Fellowship

John 20:28

“My Lord and my God!”

Emperor Domitian

“Lord and God”

Stuart Townend

One with the Father, Ancient of DaysThrough the SpiritWho clothes faith with certainty

(See, what a morning)

U2

It’s not if I believe in loveBut if love believes in me

(from Moment Of Surrender)

Mother Teresa

“I have never had clarity. What I have always had is trust. So I will pray that you trust God.”