The hearings will likely produce additional drama amid the backdrop
of little faith in both regulators and large financial services firms.
Jason is the author of O
Me of Little Faith --(one of my favorite books on the topic of doubt)-- as well as a bunch of other books including the funny and informative Pocket Guide Series.
Oh,
yea of little faith, come to the churches of my world... it is there that the best work against God's Holy Kingdom is done.
Those who are interested in the nuts - and - bolts of the faith - based movement should
read Of Little Faith: The Politics of George W. Bush's Faith - Based Initiatives.
When another Jew asked him why he was engaging in what seemed, to
someone of little faith, to be a suicidal course of action, he answered with this parable: A fox was walking alongside a river and saw fish, who were forming groups in the stream.
Perhaps one of the best things Christians can do now for their
contemporaries of little faith, or whose faith is private rather than communal, is to promote and make evident the public benefits, the urban benefits, of the shared faith of Christian humanism (which for a start means at least getting our own architectural and urban act together).
Ye
of little faith yet I am faithfully knowing that only those willing to endure my Word will heed and read!
That is why, humbly and devoutly echoing a divine utterance, I feel the need to cry to those around me, «What do ye fear, O
men of little faith?»
On Friday, April 16 I'll be participating in a lunch forum from 12:45 - 1:45 withJason Boyett, author of the Pocket Guides and O
Me of Little Faith.
In Matthew he says, «
Because of your little faith,» and adds that with even a little faith, small as a mustard seed, one could order a mountain to move and be obeyed (cf. Mk 11:23; Mt 21:20).
do you think for ONE moment YOU are more important than the Son of God, to be saved or spared???? PTL Amen,
yea of little faith..
------- But Luke, Jesus makes it clear that Peter's dive wasn't because he wasn't perfect, but because, «
You of little faith» he said, «why did you doubt?»
8:26; «Why are you fearful, of
you of little faith?»
Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more cloth you, O
you of little faith?
And
those of little faith, falling by the wayside, one by one until only true good remained.
Contrast this to Peter, t he «man
of little faith», in last weeks Gospel!
Conviction is what keeps Christians focused on Christ, and fearless — «O,
ye of little faith.»
Or Jesus» reproof, «
You of little faith, why did you doubt?»
«O
thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?»
In Matthew Jesus calls them «men
of little faith,» one of Matthew's favorite expressions (cf. Mt 6:30; 8:26; 14:3 1; 16:8; also 17:20; Lk 12:28).
The phrase «
of little faith» is peculiar to Matthew.
In addition to Jason's memoir, O
Me of Little Faith (due out in May), and my memoir, Evolving in Monkey Town (due out in July), Zondervan has re-released John Ortberg's book on the subject, now entitled Know Doubt.
Mat 6:30 Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O
ye of little faith?
I hear, «
All ye of little faith...» played to harp music in my head, Michael there next to the musicians with a great sword, with the forming of any doubt.
Try to get your head around that before «
ye of little faith» reply!
Book Review:
Of Little Faith: The Politics of George W. Bush's Faith - Based Initiatives.
If we are afraid of cooperation with Marxists or people of other faiths because the existence of the church is thereby threatened we are
of little faith, for then we do not believe in the power of the living God, but we judge instead by human standards.
- Jason Boyett, author of O Me of Little Faith
If Peter is a man
of little faith, what are they?
But as Jesus stretches out his hand to Peter, Jesus says to him, «Oh
you of little faith.
If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O
you of little faith?
But then, through a long series of events (some of which you can read over at Oh
Me of Little Faith, I came to see that I was actually a leper.