You know, if you listen to people, whether it's in the media or public in general, and whenever

they, or even educators for that matter, when they talk about faith, generally speaking,

they're really talking about you having faith in yourself or having faith in somebody else

or having faith that things will be okay.

Just the word faith is sort of banded about without really proper definition and understanding.

And even some churches teach that even faith in God is a blind faith.

Not many years ago, a minister was talking to me one-on-one, and one of those ministers of those churches that teaches that, and he basically said to me, he said,

I don't know if the Bible is true or not. I don't know if Jesus is real or not. I don't know if the resurrection happened or not, but I just accept it all by faith.

Do you know what my response was?

I'd rather be an atheist than have this kind of blind faith.

Because my faith is anchored in the fact that God is what the Bible said he is. My faith is anchored in the fact that every word in his book is God breathed. My faith is anchored in the fact that Jesus was God

of very God who became man of very man.

My faith is anchored in the fact that four eyewitness accounts detail the life, the crucifixion, and the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

far more than all the historical evidence by which we

believe history, that they were recording what they saw with their own eyes and heard with

their own ears, that my faith is anchored in the fact that I was wicked and lost in sin.

But when I came and asked for his forgiveness, he gave it to me.

And he forgave my sin.

And gave me the assurance of eternal life.

My faith is anchored in the fact that before Christ came into my life,

I was alienated.

I was aimless. I was aimless.

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