Keep the faith
MARCH 20, 2025
Lakeshore Friends,
It’s one of the most heart-breaking things I see happen. In fact, I can’t think of anything that is more tragic. It has potentially devastating consequences for the afterlife. It does the same for this life.
It can happen suddenly with just one really bad experience. Other times, however, it happens as a gradual drift away from the truth. In either case, it can lead to a permanent departure from what is good and true and right.
What is it? It’s losing our faith.
This is a situation that God warns us about again and again in Scripture. Jesus talked about this in the parable of the sower and the seed where some seed started to take root and grow only to have shallow soil or nearby weeds take the emerging plant out for good. He also talked about people saying they had faith but not really living it out when times got tough. James said it was a faith that didn’t want to do the work. Peter even calls it a dog returning to it’s own vomit.
Losing our faith is serious!
The good news is that God tells us where we most commonly start to lose our faith and where we can keep our faith through the power of His Spirit. That’s what I’ll talk about as I wrap up our Press On series on Sunday, using 2 Timothy 4:1-8.
One of the great reasons God created the church is that it is a source of encouragement to keep the faith! I hope you’ll join me here on Sunday so we can encourage each other in “the faith.”
Warmly,
Vince
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