The Adventure of Faith

Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Bishop Robert Barron

Spirituality, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 7 March 2004

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

We have a God of adventure, a God who is always out ahead of us. Faith, in the Biblical sense of the term, is not primarily the acquiesence to propositions; rather, it is an attitude of trust in the God who calls us beyond ourselves. We witness this faith in Abraham's willingness to follow where God leads, and we see it too in the disciples' willingness to follow Jesus on the path toward the cross. Do we settle for what we know and control, or do we venture into the darkness, trusting in what God promises? This is the great question that our readings for the second Sunday of Lent propose to us.

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0:00.0	Word on Fire is brought to you by Catholic cemeteries, serving the Chicago area since 1837,
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0:10.9	This is Cardinal Francis George, and I invite you to join me for the next few minutes to
0:15.1	reflect with Father Robert Barron on the Word of God, which is the Word on Fire.
0:21.7	Father Barron will challenge us to open our hearts to the Word on Fire, which is God's
0:26.0	Word of Love for each of us.
0:28.3	If our hearts are open, the Lord can change and transform us, who we might speak with
0:33.3	love about the one who is love.
0:36.6	The Archdiocese of Chicago, through the generosity of Sacred Heart Parish and Winnetka, now presents
0:41.6	the Word on Fire.
0:44.4	Peace be with you.
0:45.9	Friends, the readings for the second Sunday of Lent, deal with the question of faith,
0:52.8	and it makes them central therefore to our spiritual lives, because in some ways everything
0:56.5	in the Christian life centers around this great attitude of faith.
1:01.8	Paul Tillich, the 20th century Protestant theologian, said, faith is the least understood
1:07.6	word in the religious vocabulary, and there's something right about that.
1:12.5	But the Bible gives us time and again reflections on the nature of faith.
1:18.1	The first reading for the second Sunday of Lent deals with Abraham.
1:23.5	Whenever the Bible talks about Abraham, it's talking about faith.
1:28.7	He is our father in faith, the one who is made just and righteous by faith.
1:35.3	So we have to attend rather carefully to the stories around Abraham.
1:40.8	To remember how it begins, Abraham is 75 years old in the city of Ur, and he hears a call
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