October 10, 2021
Rev. Dylan Valliere
Faith is not a way to guarantee that God will make you healthy, wealthy, and successful.
By faith, God sometimes provides for his people through miraculous providence.
By faith, God sometimes provides for his people through non-miraculous providence.
By faith, God sometimes preserves his people through sufferings.
Suffering or escaping suffering as a Christian depends ultimately on God, not your faith.
Christian faith believes that the goodness of God in eternity is better than anything in this life; any prosperity God provides and any suffering we're spared.
Living witnesses through their suffering that Jesus really is better than everything else.