Faith and Doubt
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6 christians thinkers who wrestled with doubt
Instead of being a sign of weakness, doubt is something that causes us to dig deeper into our relationship with God and renews our faith.
C.S. Lewis
“Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods … That is why Faith is such a necessary virtue: unless you teach your moods ‘where they get off,’ you can never be either a sound Christian or even a sound atheist.”
Read moreMother Teresa
Mother Teresa of Calcutta is primarily remembered for her selfless service to the poor and sick, but a book of letters printed after her death revealed that even she struggled with doubt at times. She frequently wrote of loneliness, not hearing from God, personal hypocrisy and doubts about her own faith.
Read moreMartin Luther
Along with his legacy of being a reformer and a father of Protestantism, Martin Luther is also remembered for a less grand—and a much more relatable—trait: Doubt. Luther’s primary doubts about faith didn’t necessarily rest on the question of God’s existence, but His character.
Read moreCharles Spurgeon
One of history’s great preachers, Charles Spurgeon was not only a master of communicating deep truths of Scriptures, but also of engaging with his audience and relating their struggles. He wrote, he writes: “The lesson of wisdom is, be not dismayed by soul-trouble … Cast not away your confidence, for it hath great recompense of reward. Even if the enemy’s foot be on your neck, expect to rise amid overthrow him..."
Read moreEllen White
"The great plan of mercy from the beginning of time is to have every afflicted soul trust in His love. Your safety at the present time when your mind is tortured with doubt is not to trust in feeling but in the living God. All He asks of you is to put your trust in Him, acknowledging Him as your faithful Saviour, who loves you and has forgiven you all your mistakes and errors." Letter 299, 1904.
Read moreLee Strobel
Atheist-turned-Christian Lee Strobel, the former award-winning legal editor of The Chicago Tribune, is a New York Times best-selling author of more than forty books and curricula that have sold fourteen million copies in total. After probing the evidence for Jesus for nearly two years, Lee became a Christian in 1981 and now continues to write books helping others to explore doubt and experience rich faith.
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Obstacles to Faith
Explore this sermon series by Lightbearers speaker Ty Gibson dealing with questions about suffering, prayer, the Old Testament, and much more.
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