Are you familiar with the difference between junk food and real food? Junk food is loaded with calories but not much else. It doesn’t have the essential nutrients you need. Do you think there is a corresponding parallel between real faith and junk faith? Real faith is transformative and the process this involves is unsettling. Do you know believers who are secure and comfortable and in whom there doesn’t appear to be any growth or change taking place? If your faith isn’t challenging you to move forward then how much nourishment are you deriving from it? Let me be your dietitian.

If I received Abraham on the basis of his belief, and nothing that you currently think of as essential doctrine had been developed yet, then what did he believe? His belief was not based around a list of assertions, but in a living God. He believed me, and acted in response. You describe your faith as a relationship with me. Doesn’t this approach seem more relational than assent to a list of propositions, even if they are true? I challenged my audience to search the scriptures in which they thought they had eternal life, to see that they testified of me. Come to me and live.

Knowledge versus Wisdom - One of the most challenging things I needed to do in my role as a Chief Technologist was staying current with the ever-changing state of Technology. This week I watched a video of a Microsoft Conference Speaker using a hologram of herself to give a speech. She spoke in English, but the hologram spoke in Japanese. I was amazed. 

I have chosen the poor to be rich in faith. Do you understand this? Have you observed this for yourself? Troubles come to all, but the rich have enough money to buy their way out of it, and they can proceed with their life as if nothing had happened. The poor know that they cannot be their own salvation and when troubles come they have no resources available to deal with them other than to trust in me. By this method the wealthy avoid opportunities for growth and development and the poor become rich in faith. Do you want to be rich enough to buy your way out of trouble?