THE FOUNDATION OF OUR FAITH

Introduction

Norman G and I have been blessed the past number of years to spend a good part of our summer up in uh Ontario, Canada, working with churches in the Niagara region. And if you ever get out the way, there’s some wonderful brethren that worship at Wellingport and Jordan and Smithville and the ensuing areas. But one of the things where we stay is about 25 minutes from Niagara Falls. And so we typically get over to the falls at least once while we’re there. And it’s just it’s fun just to see the power and the majesty of the falls. And if you go through the museum, if you ever get up there, go through the museum because it’s really interesting to see the history of the falls, and especially people that have tried to go down the falls.

And then the other thing that is interesting is people that have walked the falls. And you may, I don’t mean on the water, but in my lifetime, and I think this ended maybe in the 80s when they finally uh passed a law up there that it was illegal to do this. But there were people that would span a tightrope across from the American side to the Canadian side and literally walk it. Henry Wrighton, who was a professional acrobat, a Frenchman, used to do a high wire act across the falls. And he would go from the American side to the Canadian side and back. And of course, crowds were just uh amazed and enthralled at him doing this. Uh on one occasion, he took a wheelbarrow that was grooved, and he went as he pushed a wheelbarrow from one side to the other.

And when he got to the other side, he asked uh if anybody believed that he could push them to the other side. Of course, you know, people, yeah, you can do that. And so a little boy was standing there, and he was kind of nodding his head. He said, All right, son, jump in. Well, the little boy looked at him and fright and took off running. I mean, there was no way that he was he was going to do that. The story is told, and I think this is actually true, that on one occasion when he did that, he actually had a volunteer in the audience. And so that day he didn’t have a wheelbarrow, but he asked someone to ride piggyback as he walked across Niagara Falls.

And there was a young lady named Jacqueline who accepted the challenge. And that led to a relationship, and they end up being married for 30 some years. Now, I guess you if you could trust a guy to walk across Niagara Falls, riding piggyback, you could trust him to be married to him, right? But the story kind of indicates that a lot of folks are kind of like the little boy. They profess to believe in Jesus’ ability to take them across difficult, tempestuous areas, but they fail to really commit themselves into his hands. And then there are other people like this young lady that believe and they put their lives on the line and risk everything to prove their faith. Like riding someone piggyback across Niagara Falls.

This series that we’re doing this weekend, How Firm a Foundation, I think naturally calls, and I was pleased when the shepherds sent me this title to talk about faith. Because the firm foundation that we’ve already been discussing in the previous two lessons that had to do with Jesus Christ is not possible without faith. That foundation in Jesus Christ, the firm foundation in Jesus Christ, involves the foundation of faith. And that’s our lesson for this second hour this morning. Sure, it’s good to see each one. I appreciate so much the invitation of the shepherds to be with you this weekend and to be able to share these wonderful thoughts with you about Jesus and the foundation and particularly this morning our faith. I am impressed on a Saturday morning in Florida, as beautiful as the day is that you’ve chosen to come out and to be with us and to spend some time opening God’s word and thinking about these spiritual thoughts.

It’s an encouragement to me as the speaker, and I hope that you are edified and uplifted by it. J.R. mentioned the friends that are sitting with us, the the Jones, Paul, and Norma Jones, they’re from the well, they have moved now, but they live a little ways out of Kansas City. But they were at Kansas City when we lived in that area. I preached for the Hickman Mills Church. Paul served as one of the shepherds. And in fact, I think when we first moved there, maybe in one of the trials, we stayed with them one of the times we went up there. So they became very good friends of ours. And of course, her name is Norma, and my Norma. And I think that’s when we went back because you get the Normas confused.

And Norma said, Well, when I was younger, I was called Norma Jean. And so we just decided then that she’d become Norma Jean. And let, because Norma Jones was there first. And so she had to be Norma number one. And by Norma could sit her calling her Norma number two, because I didn’t think that sounded very good. I thought I could be in hot water with that. So she’d just be Norma Jean. And so that’s how she’s become Norma Jean. Okay, Norma, I got to tell this cute little story, though. And I don’t remember how old the little girl was. I’m going to say four or five or along in there. But when it found out that we had accepted the invitation and had moved there, and they found that my wife’s name was Norma, and of course they already knew Norma Jones.

This little girl said to Norma Jones, she said, Oh no, another old Norma. Man, that’s been a few years. That’s been what, ten years ago or something. I don’t know. We didn’t think we’re all that old then. But uh I asked someone the other day, when you go to I saw David Tant, and I said, How are you doing, Brother Tant? He said, Pretty good for an old man. I said, Well, how old are you? He said, 89. I said, Well, that’s encouraging me. When maybe I’m not old yet. You know, I got a ways to go before I get old. But anyway, it’s good to have the Jones with us and all the rest of you, whether you came all the way from Missouri or down the street.

1. What Is Faith?

We’re glad to have you, and I hope that you’re encouraged by this lesson. Well, a simple place, I think, for us to begin is to ask the question this morning what is faith? And so if we define it, just start with a Webster’s definition. It’s allegiance to duty or to a person. But to dig a little deeper than that, we want to look at the Bible usage of the Greek word faith. And W. E. Vine says it primarily means a firm persuasion, a conviction based upon hearing. And then by metonymy, it is what is believed or the contents of the faith. So that leads us to think about the word must be used in more than one way. It is the trust that we have in God, but then there’s something more.

And so the word faith is used many times in the Bible. To talk about our trust. 1 Corinthians 2 5. That your faith should not be in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. And so there it’s easy to understand that we’re talking about our faith is the confidence we have, the confidence we have in the Lord, the trust that we have in Him. That is the idea of faith. Faith is taking God at His word. But as Vine suggests, the word is used by metonymy to indicate the contents of that which is believed, or what we might call the system of faith. And so in the book of Ephesians in chapter 4, and that great text of unity, Paul says there’s one Lord, one faith, one baptism.

And so we think about the idea of one faith. Or Jude put it this way when he said to earnestly contend for the faith. And so that’s the system of faith. That’s the contents of what it is that we believe. And by the way, you notice in that passage, he said that the faith was once delivered to all the saints. And I think it’s a good place to make this point that we have that which was once delivered. That as we talk about the Bible being the Word of God, we have that which the Holy Spirit inspired Peter and Paul and James and other prophets and inspired writers to write it down. And Paul affirmed in Ephesians 3, verses 3 through 5, that I have written down that revelation, that which was uncovered and revealed to me, and by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, I’ve written it down in a few words whereby when you read, you can understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ.

There is not continuing revelation. There are not inspired men today that are getting revelations. They’re finding plates out in Utah somewhere that they dig up and they learn something new. Or someone in some city in Italy gets some kind of a revelation and they let us know something about it. Or someone that’s a preacher down in Texas somewhere and they learn something new and they got a new revelation and they put it out on some brotherhood paper. No, there’s no continuing revelation. There is the faith that was once delivered for all the saints. And so our faith, our trust, is founded on the faith. And so you have the word used both ways in Romans 5, verses 1 and 2. He said, Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we also have access by faith into this grace in which we stand and rejoice in the hope of the glory of God.

And so don’t you see that there?

That we’re justified by faith, the system of faith, the one faith, the faith that lived for all the saints. But how do we have access into the faith? Through our faith and the faith. Our faith is founded on the faith. And so the faith is called the faith of the gospel. There’s no mystery about that or misunderstanding about that. We’re talking about the gospel. So Paul would write Philippians 1 22, only let your conduct be worthy of the gospel of Christ. So that whether I come and see you or an absent, I may hear of your affairs. That you stand fast in one spirit with one mind, striving together for the faith of the gospel. And so when we talk this morning about faith and the foundation of faith, we understand that the foundation of our faith is on the gospel, the faith.

2. Faith Sees the Unseen

But as I go through this lesson, I probably will be using the words interchangeably. I’ll be talking at times about our faith, and I’ll be talking at times about the faith, and you’ll be able to detect the difference, the usage as I as I use the terms, just like you do here in Romans 5, 1 and 2. So let’s think a little bit more about what this faith is. Faith is the ability to see the unseen. The Hebrew writer in chapter 11 and verse 1 said, now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. And so it is that which has to do with that which is unseen. My favorite writer, Anonymous, said, faith sees the invisible, believes the incredible, and receives the impossible.

I like that. The 19th century Scottish minister, Alexander McLaren said, faith is the sight of the inward eye. Now, what does all of this mean? Well, it means that, unlike the little boy that ran away from uh the acrobat uh written, that we’re willing to get into the wheelbarrow, that we’re willing to trust God, that we’re willing to take him at his word, that we have the ability to see what is unseen. There is an old story, and I’m not ashamed to use it because I’m not an old preacher yet, but I’m moving in that direction. Um, and it may be apocryphal, I don’t know, but it makes a good point. And the story is told of a family who lived in a two-story house, and it caught fire one night, and as they were rushing out of the house and waiting on the fire department to come, they had a younger son that was sleeping in an upstairs bedroom, and he didn’t get out, and the fire blocked the way for him to be able to get down the stairs and get out.

And on the ground below, the boy’s father was knowing the son had to get out. And he had come to the window and open it, was hollering and yelling, and his father said, Jump, jump, I’ll catch you, jump, I’ll catch you. And the little fellow, of course, was naturally frightened, and he didn’t want to jump. And all he could see was smoke and flames and the darkness of the night, and he was scared to jump. And the father kept saying, Son, jump and I’ll catch you. Finally, the little boy hollered. They said, Daddy, I can’t see you. And the father said, That’s okay, son. I can see you. And that’s all that matters. That old illustration underscores the importance of the axiom about faith. The faith is not jumping to conclusions, it’s concluding to jump.

Faith sees the unseen.

3. Faith Is the Foundation of Our Hope

Faith sees the unseen. Not only that, faith is the foundation of our hope. In this same passage, he talks here about it being the substance of things hoped for. Well, that very word conjures up a picture of a foundation, doesn’t it? The substance of something, that which undergirds something, that which supports something. Faith is the substance of things that are hoped for. Our faith is not founded upon fables or fiction or feelings. It is founded upon facts. The fact that God is. That Jesus Christ is the Son of God. That the Bible is the Word of God. It’s found upon the fact that Jesus was born of a virgin, that he lived, that he died, that he was resurrected from the dead, that he ascended back to heaven, and that he indeed is our chief cornerstone, as we talked about in the earlier lesson.

We have solid, sound, accurate evidence of his word and of his promises. This is rendered in the ESV. Faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things that are not seen. We have assurance. We can have conviction.

4. Faith Is the Key to God’s Approval

There doesn’t need to be any question. We don’t need to wonder. Are we right? Is the Bible right? Can we trust this? Yes, we can. Faith is the assurance of the things that we’ve hoped for. We can be convicted that it is so. I believe it was Hendrickson that made the comment that a belief is something that you may argue about, but a conviction is something you’re willing to die for. It’s one thing to argue about our beliefs. It’s another thing for those beliefs to finally be firmed in the convictions that we are assured that this is so. Not only that, faith is the key to God’s approval. There are those who think that you please God just by reciting religious rituals, or you can please God simply by following rules and regulations, or that you can do enough good works to offset the bad works of the mistakes that you make.

Ian Bowms put it this way when he wrote, faith is not an abstract belief in the word of God, nor a mere mental credence, nor a simple assent of the understanding of the will, nor is it a passive acceptance of the facts. Faith is the key to God’s approval. And so the Hebrew writer would say, but without faith, it is impossible to please him, for he who comes to God must believe that he is, and that he is the rewarder of those who diligently seek him. That’s what faith is about. There’s an old story. This is a story, it’s apocryphal. But as the story goes, there was a man named Jack who was walking in a mountainous region, and he accidentally got a little bit too close to the edge, and he slipped off and began to slide down this cliff into a ravine, and he, as he was on the way down, there was a branch, and he was able to grab that branch.

But he was too far down to be able to clog himself back up, and as he looked down into the ravine below, he certainly didn’t want to let go and drop more than a thousand feet. And he knew he couldn’t hold on to the branch forever. And so as the story goes, he began to yell for help. Help, help. Is anyone up there? And he yelled for a while. And finally a voice said, Jack, Jack, can you hear me? He goes, Yes, yes, I hear you. I’m down here. He said, I can see you, Jack. Are you alright? Yes, I’m alright. Where are you? He said, I’m the Lord. I’m everywhere, Jack. The Lord? You mean God? Yes, that’s me. He said, Lord, I’ll do anything.

Just tell me what to do. Okay, Jack, let go of the branch. What? I said, let go of the branch. Trust me and just let go. There was a long silence. And finally, Jack yelled, Is there anyone else up there? Now, I understand that’s a kind of a trite, silly little story. But really, I think there’s a moral death story. Sometimes we get ourselves in a tough spot. And the Lord tells us to let go. And we’re not sure that we need to do that. And we’re saying, is there anyone else up there? You know, I can think of times through the years when people come to me for some counsel. And almost always, if someone comes to me on a Sunday and says, Are you at the office this week?

Oh, yeah. Well, when are you there? Well, when do you want to come? That’s when I’ll be there for sure. And so we say, so I always know someone’s got a problem. They didn’t come by to pat me on the back and tell me I’m a great preacher or something. They they come by with a problem. And so I’m ready for what the problem is, hopefully. And they’d come in and got a problem. And sometimes it’s a tough problem. Usually it is. And I’ll listen to it, and more often than not, almost always, you open the Bible and say, Well, here’s the answer to it. And it’s amazing how many times people don’t like the answer. And sometimes people will leave and they go try to find another preacher.

Or go to their counselor or go to their brother-in-law or somebody else to get an answer because they don’t like the answer from God’s word. You know, a fellow wrote a book a number of years ago with a very simple title, Let Go and Let God. And there are just times of certain situations where we need to have the kind of faith to trust God and to seek God’s approval that we just let go. We let go of our fears and anxieties and problems and trepidations and questions and doubts. In fact, I like the expression someone said, not to let your doubts overcome you, but to doubt your doubts. If you’re going to doubt anything, doubt your doubts. Don’t doubt your faith. Doubt your doubts. Let go and let God.

5. Faith Is the Product of Your Thoughts

Faith is the key to God’s approval. But not only that, faith is the product of your thoughts. A lot of people operate on the basis of their feelings. Well, you know where our feelings come from? Our thoughts. And if you’re thinking the wrong kind of thoughts, you’re going to have the wrong kind of feelings. Your faith is a product of the right kind of feelings. Now, there’s basically two approaches in life when it comes to our thoughts. One approach is having positive faith thoughts. The second approach is having negative doubting thoughts. Now, I want to take the time, take a few minutes here and camp on this because I think it is so important. And if you want to turn with me in your Bibles, I’m not going to read all of this text.

But it’s in the book of Numbers in chapter 13 or 14. And I’ll tell you the story of it. And the story of it, beginning in chapter 13, talks about the spies that were sent into the land of Canaan. The children of Israel, you know, had left Egypt and left Mount Sinai. They’ve been gone about two years now. They come to Kadesh Barnea. And so they requested Moses send spies into the land of right on the precipice of going into the promised land that God had promised all these years to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and now here they are. And so they send in these twelve spies. Now, if you look at the names of these spies, and they list them there in 13, and you go back, it was a part of the men of war that the book of Numbers, and because there’s a lot of numbers in the book of Numbers, it’s called the Book of Numbers.

You all got that? Okay. So they’re all numbered. There’s 603,550 men of war. It tells you that in the first part of Numbers. Okay. And so out of these 603,550, they picked 12. Now, who do you think they picked? The best of the best. These weren’t just anybody. These were these were the men of war. These were the men. These were the fighting men. These were the courageous men. They were the cream of the crop. And so they picked 12 to go into the land of Canaan. Now, most of you here this morning probably are familiar with the story. So they go in there for 40 days, they check out the land and they come back. And so these ten spies come back, and I’m dropping down to about verse 27 or 8.

And they agree, this is a land that flows with milk and honey. Nevertheless, the people who dwell in the land, verse 28, are strong. And the cities are fortified and they’re very large. And moreover, we saw the descendants of Amak there. And the Amalekites dwelt in the land of the south, and the Kittites and the Jebusites and the Amorites and a bunch of other rites dwelled in the mountains, and the Canaanites dwelt by the sea and along the banks of the Jordan. Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said, Let us go up at once and possess it, for we are well able to overcome it. But the men who have gone up with him said, We are not able. We are not able to go up against this people, for they are stronger than we are.

And they and they gave the children of Israel a bad report of the land, which they spotted out saying, The land that we’ve gone through, gone through as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants. And the people that we saw are men of great stature, like Ken Welover. And we saw, well, no, it doesn’t say that. I just want to see if you’re listening. Okay. And we saw the giants and the descendants of Anach that came from the giants. And we were like grasshoppers at our own sight. And so we were in their sight. Two approaches in life. Positive faith thoughts, negative doubting thoughts. And so here are the ten spies. What’d they say? The people are strong, the cities are walled. We saw giants.

They’re stronger. We’re not able. The land of ours, its inhabitants. We are like grasshoppers. But Caleb and Joshua then speak up. And we have Caleb there in verse 14, or in chapter 13, verse 30 speaking up. And then in chapter 14, I mean, this got so bad they wanted to go back to Egypt. They’ve forgotten how bad it was to be slaves in Egypt. And they rebel against the leadership of Moses and Aaron and want to select a leader to go back into Egyptian bondage. And Joshua in verse 6 of chapter 14, the son of Nun, which it doesn’t mean he didn’t have parents, by the way, in case you’re wondering, okay. Joshua, the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephtanah, who was among those who spied out the land, tore their clothes.

And they spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, The land that we passed through to spot is an exceedingly good land. And if the Lord delights in us, then he will bring us into this land, and he will give it to us, a land that flows with milk and honey. Only do not rebel against the Lord, nor fear the people of the land, for they are bread. Their protection is departed from them, and the Lord is with us. Do not fear them. And the next verse says the congregation wouldn’t hear it. They wanted to stone them with stones. So you saw the negative attitude of the ten spies. Caleb and Joshua, their response is don’t fear the people. The defenses departed, they’re bred for us.

The Lord is with us. We’re well able. The Lord will give us a land. The Lord delights in us. Now, in those words are two different kinds of attitudes. The negative attitude of the ten spies were attitudes of fear and doubt and ingratitude, a self-effacing attitude. We’re just like little grasshoppers, and really a rebellion against God. The positive faith attitude of Caleb and Joshua was one of courage and faith and thankfulness and confidence and surrendered obedience. Now, sometimes I have series where this is an entire sermon. So you all gotten a little bonus here. See, just a cliff notes version of an entire sermon. But I want you to take that and chew on that a little bit and think about the difference here between these negative doubting thoughts of the 10 spies and the positive faith thoughts of Caleb and Joshua.

So based on the number I got earlier, I know 643,548 died in the wilderness. Because everybody of that generation, 20 years and older, died, the Bible says. Over the next 38 years, you say it’s 40. Well, they got two years retroactive from this point. Because they’d trembled. So for the next 38 years, you had all these deaths. I’ve never calculated this. Somebody calculated it’s better at math than me and said that averages be a funeral every 20 minutes for 38 years. That may be so. A lot of people died. Why? Because of faithless doubting, unsure, ungrateful people that didn’t trust in God. Two live, Caleb and Joshua. Now you know their names. If you looked at that list in chapter 13 and begin to read all these, you wouldn’t, you wouldn’t know any of those other names.

You’d never heard them before, probably. Even if you read your Bible all the way through. They don’t stick with us. But Caleb and Joshua do. We know them because they were men of faith. And so, ladies and gentlemen, what I’m saying to you this morning is that the foundation of faith, the faith, has to be our faith. Our faith and the faith. And that faith is a product of your thoughts. Now, that raises the question, what is the source of positive faith thoughts? Reading the book by Norman Vincent Peel. Going to hear John Maxwell in a success seminar. Watching a TED talk. No, it’s very simple. Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God. And so that’s the source. And so the more we get into the Word of God and we think the thoughts that is revealed to us by faith, then the more our foundation of faith is stronger.

6. Faith Triggers Action

Samuel smiles said it this way. Sow a thought and you reap an act. Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. So a character and you reap a destiny. That’s how important our thoughts are. Faith also triggers action. I’m not going to read Hebrews 11 this morning. Most of us are familiar with it. If by chance that that’s not a Bible passage that you’re real familiar with, I would suggest you mark that and in your time read the entire chapter. Because it really, although we’ve alluded to a couple of the passages, define faith for us, it gives us a lot of examples in Hebrews 11 of great people of faith. People that sought God and sought to please God.

And their faith was demonstrated in activity and in action. And so what do we read in this chapter? We read of these people, and then we read action terms that describe them listening to God and falling through on what God said. We read that Abel offered, and that Enoch walked, and Noah prepared, and Abraham went, and Isaac blessed, and Moses refused, and Joshua fought, and Rahab received, and Daniel prayed. All of these and much more in Hebrews 11, speak to action. These Old Testament patriarchs believed in God. They accepted his word, they embraced his calling, they diligently obeyed what God said, and that’s what real faith is, and what real faith does. Not enough for us to say, Lord, I believe, and then not follow through with action.

And so James, in his book in chapter 2, would speak to this very issue, and he would refer to two of these characters, Abraham and Rahab, of people whose faith triggered their activity and action, proving their faith in God. He said, Someone will say, You have faith, and I have works. Show me your faith without your works, and I will show you my faith by my works. And after speaking of these two ancient people from the Old Testament, Abraham and Rahab, he comes to this conclusion. For as the, whoops, I got out of there. For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead, being alone. I don’t know if you can bring that back, that last line back up or not, but if you can, I would appreciate that.

That’s what faith is. Faith is activity and action that is expressed in our deeds. William James says the greatest factor in any undertaking is one’s belief. Faith can change your life because it can move you to do that which you would normally not attempt. And so when we think about the firm foundation, and we think about the foundation that is on Jesus Christ, we must have the faith to build upon that foundation and take him at his word. Before we sing the song that J.R. has selected, I’d like to close with this little story.

Conclusion

But the story is told that years ago there was a little girl on an unaccompanied cross country flight. And soon after the takeoff, the pilot’s voice came on and calmly told the passengers, we will not be serving the passengers’ beverages at this time, as we’re expecting a little turbulence. Have you ever been on a flight and heard that? A little turbulence is code for saying that this plane is going to shake like crazy and you think it’s going to fall apart. But anyway, a little turbulence. Please be sure your seatbelt is fastened. Well, pretty soon the turbulence began. And the little turbulence turned into a lot of turbulence. The plane was shaking, and many of the passengers were concerned. And the man that was relating this incident, who was a veteran of many flights, confessed that he was even feeling a little bit of discomfort.

But he noticed across the aisle on the aisle seat there, there was a little girl. And she was sitting there, and like good little kids do, she had her feet cutting tucked underneath her. And she was reading a book. And she was obviously oblivious to the storm and the turbulence of the plane. Well, finally, after a little while, the storm passed, and the ride became smoother, and everything, everybody got calm again. And so the man leaned over to the little girl and he said to her, he said, You sure are a brave little girl. That was a rough ride, but it didn’t bother you. And the child looked up and she smiled and she said, Well, my daddy’s the pilot. He’s taking me home. I wasn’t afraid.

Well, it illustrates the importance of confidence in our lives. God has not promised us Christians that we will never face any turbulence. There’ll be storms, challenges, problems, temptations, trials, sickness, suffering, death. There’ll be a lot of things in our lives that will cause turbulence. But like the little girl, we need to say and believe, our Father’s taking us home. I’m not afraid. My faith is on the solid foundation of the Lord Jesus Christ. I know the heart of no one here this morning. It well could be that there’s someone in this audience that’s facing a battle and a struggle. And maybe you desire the prayers of the church family here. Don’t be ashamed of that. We all struggle in different ways. And if we can lift you in prayer, I think I know the hearts of the shepherds here and of Ken and others here, that they’d be glad to embrace you, not just physically but spiritually, and lift you before the Father’s throne.

It could be that there’s one or more here that’s never obeyed the gospel of Christ. And you’ve never accepted Jesus as your Savior through faith in him and his revealed word, a willing to repent and turn from your sins, confess allegiance to him as now the Lord of your life. And as he said, He that believes and is baptized shall be saved. That you can have the blood of Jesus wash away your sins as you are immersed in water. Rise therefrom to become a new creature in Christ, a child of God. And then you can arise from the waters of baptism, take the hand of the wounded Savior, say, Lord, lead and I will follow. And continue to build on that foundation of faith throughout your days.

And one day have the peaceful, calm assurance that you can cross the chilly river of death and go home to be with Him forever. We can help you in that regard, or you have a spiritual need, we’d love to serve you at this time, but we stand and sing together.