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  • Faith Like a Child, Part 3: Only Eight Months Until Christmas

    April 18th, 200902:51 PM ET
    By David Sanford
    I've been thinking about Christmas a lot lately. No, I'm not worried about what to buy my wife, my two younger children, my three grown children, my two sons-in-law, and my two (soon to be three) small grandchildren. Instead, I've been wondering why it's often so easy for people to stop believing in Jesus when they "grow up" and "outgrow" the true ...

  • The Greatest Temptation: "Losing" Our Faith

    March 18th, 200912:44 AM ET
    By David Sanford
    My father is an atheist, so I still remember having no idea what the Bible was, let alone that my first name appeared in it so many times. As a teenager, however, I started reading God's Word from cover to cover, and before college I had memorized nearly 100 pages of Scripture. I've read through the Bible dozens of times. And I've discovered that ...

  • Losing Everything

    March 03rd, 200907:01 PM ET
    By David Sanford
    Have you ever lost someone near or dear to you? I lost someone when I was eleven. My dad and mom and brother and two sisters and I were near Snoqualmie Pass, about fifty miles east of Seattle. Waiting in line near the top of mountain slope was a girl about my age with a new red circular saucer. Compared to my black smelly inner tube, it was high ...
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Jesus talked about no faith, little faith, faith, growing faith, more faith, much faith, which kind do you have right now?