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Some people dismiss the idea of faith.

They live by facts and logic.

Well, Pastor Greg Lorry says, consider this.

We apply faith each and every day.

You board a 747 weighing 900,000 pounds in trust that that giant heap of metal is going to get up off the ground

take you to your destination. That's fake. But we are to have faith and here's the key.

It's faith in God. That's how the power us.

This is the day when the lost I found.

This is the day for a new beginning.

Amazing grace, how sweet the sound.

Again you hear, and the angels are seen it.

This is the day the day when life begins.

When we go to a restaurant we've never been to before, do we test the chair before we sit down? Do we send the main course for chemical analysis before we take a bite?

When we give our credit card to pay, do we follow the server to the register to make sure it's not charged inappropriately? We exercise a certain amount of faith every day.

And coming up on a new beginning, Pastor Greg Lorry helps us exercise our faith in the God of the universe,

the one who loves us, and only has plans for good

and not to harm us. We're going through the book of Joshua,

a book of Joshua, subtitled a book of promises,

and we're in Joshua chapter 3.

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