Faith - Schuppe, James

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Résumé :
Faith is a world-wide business. Getting people to believe drives the billions of dollars spent yearly in the advertising world. In 2017 the cost of a 30-second Super Bowl add exceeded $5 million. By 2022 they were up to $7 million! Companies buy key words on search engines that will put their names at the top of our internet explorations. Why? It's all a part of getting someone to believe. But what is faith? Is it really a leap in the dark? Or is it a cold, calculated choice to accept what someone claims about global warming, or Covid, or holistic medicine? And how does faith relate us to God? After all He said, without faith it is impossible to please Him. What is the stuff that pleases Him? Does everybody have it? Can everybody get it? A little four-word sentence informs the discussion on faith in major ways. It reads faith comes by hearing (Romans 10:17). What does hearing refer to? And how does faith come out of it? Significant issues in every person's relationship with God result from that rather insignificant looking sentence. In fact every facet of every relationship hinges on our ears. This book explores the importance of the ear and how faith and eternal life come from a choice to listen. It's a process best pictured by the title, The Reach of an Empty Hand....

Biographie:
ABOUT THE AUTHORJames Schuppe was born and raised in a Christian family in the Washington DC area where his father served in the Post Office Department of the US government. He trusted Christ as Savior in 1949 when a neighbor took four or five kids on the block to a meeting he was holding at a local church. He entered the Washington Bible College in 1959 and then the Capital Bible Seminary in 1963, graduating in 1966. He accepted a full-time position as instructor in speech at the college for the fall of 1966 and taught there for twenty-three years.Jim and the former Martha Hearn were married in June 1970 at her father's church in Rossville, Georgia. They have been blessed with six children, fifteen grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren. In 1989 the family moved to Lynchburg, Virginia, where Jim taught at Liberty University for seven years. For a short time he served as interim pastor of Grace Church in Roanoke,Virginia.He became pastor of Belcroft Bible Church in Bowie, Maryland, in 1996, and served there for sixteen years, retiring in 2012. He and Martha moved to Shepherdstown, West Virginia and enjoyed country life together in almost heaven for almost 9 years until Martha entered the real place in the Spring of 2021. Jim still enjoys being involved in teaching and preaching, hanging out with the family, music, attempted sports and amateur auto mechanics....