Friends, welcome to Word on Fire Catholic Ministries.

Word on Fire is an apostolate dedicated to the mission of evangelization,

using media both old and new to share the faith on every continent

and to facilitate an encounter with Christ and His Church.

The efforts of Word on Fire engage the culture and bring the

transformative power of God's Word where it is most needed. Today, we invite you to join Bishop Robert

Barron as he preaches the gospel and shares the warmth and light of Christ with each one of us.

Peace be with you. Friends, for this Sunday, I want to talk to you once again about faith. I know I probably talk a lot about that, but as I've said before, it's the most misunderstood word in the religious vocabulary.

So here I go again. I want to follow the Bible as it walks around this phenomenon of faith

because faith is so central but also so misunderstood.

In our time, the way it's most misunderstood is faith is a kind of superstition.

Faith is a stupid acceptance of things on the basis of no evidence. Faith is believing in any old

nonsense. That's not what faith means. It never means that in the Bible. That's the sort of modern

rationalism that is caricatured religious faith. But look in the Bible as it talks about it a lot,

it never, ever means that by faith.

You know, whenever it talks about Abraham, pay attention to those stories, because Abraham

is our father in faith.

So those are always about it.

Remember a few weeks ago, we had that wonderful passage from the letter to the Hebrews that

talks about faith as a kind of pressing ahead toward things that we cannot see.

It's a kind of spiritual adventure, right? Well, both reading one today and the gospel shed

very interesting light, I think, on the nature of faith. So reading one is from a little-known

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