Dealing with Doubt
Calvary Church with Skip Heitzig Audio Podcast
Skip Heitzig
4.8 • 632 Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Doubt is often a stepping stone on the road to a secure faith. We’ve all had our doubts; it’s what we do with those doubts that matters. Do we give up, take our ball, and go home? Or do we find unshakable reasons that faith in God is the best worldview possible? Today let’s look at the rocky journey of Thomas’s struggle between faith and doubt. Perhaps we’ll see ourselves in it.
I. Confidence
II. Turbulence
III. Distance
IV. Evidence
V. Penitence
VI. Permanence
Talk with God: Meditate on 1 Peter 1:8-9 and thank the Lord for the peace and confidence we have in our salvation, so we can “rejoice with joy inexpressible” (v. 8).
Talk with others: If you’re wrestling with a doubt or difficult question, ask a mentor or pastor for help in navigating that struggle.
Talk with kids: How does God show He keeps His promises in this Bible story?
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Calvary Church with Skip Heitzik. |
| 0:03.0 | We're so glad you've joined us today. |
| 0:05.0 | At a time when everyone speaks their truth, |
| 0:07.0 | how can we know what's real, what's good, and what's true? |
| 0:10.0 | When we examine biblical truth in the light of science, reason and reality, |
| 0:14.0 | we can respond to the doubts we hear from friends and family, |
| 0:17.0 | and even our own hearts. |
| 0:19.0 | This study with Pastor Skip will encourage you to break through the noise of culture and |
| 0:22.9 | social media to explore the truth that takes us from confusion to clarity. |
| 0:31.3 | Well, week one, a benefit of the doubt. |
| 0:34.4 | Are you ready for this? |
| 0:36.3 | Make your way over to John chapter 20. John |
| 0:39.9 | chapter 20, please. John chapter 20, we're going to read about a guy. When you think of a doubter, |
| 0:47.2 | who comes to mind? Thomas comes to mind. I think we give him a bad rap, honestly. Thomas, you think, is a guy who saw a dark cloud |
| 0:58.9 | in every silver lining. He has been called the apostle from Missouri. That's what Jay Vernon |
| 1:07.5 | McGee referred to him as, the apostle from Missouri, the show me state. |
| 1:11.3 | It's like, yeah, you've got to show me before I'll believe anything. |
| 1:14.4 | We've made him the patriot's state of all skeptics. |
| 1:18.3 | Some of us imagine that, okay, let's try this. |
| 1:21.2 | If we made the apostles into Winnie the Pooh characters, |
| 1:28.6 | who would Thomas be? |
| 1:31.0 | Be E.O. The donkey, right? The pessimist won all the time. |
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