Sacred Doubt...

I preach at our home church once or twice a year and I greatly enjoy it. Like playing guitar, I get much more pleasure from the process than my limited skills reveal. I agreed to preach the last Sunday in August way back in March and I've been thinking about it for some time. Mostly my sermon dealt with my summer reading.

This summer I read Voltaire's Candide and Dawkins' The God Delusion and together they pushed me to think much more deeply about my faith and to wrestle more intensely with some of my intellectual doubts. After completing them both I found myself in quite a spiritual funk for several weeks. Seeking some intellectual comfort, I found Tim Keller's Reason for God. I found it encouraging and helpful for addressing many of the intellecutal and philosophical quandaries raised by Voltaire and Dawkins. The first half of RfG is a philosophical response to athiesm and the second half is a basic introduction to the theological pillars of orthodox Christianity.

Given the contours of my spiritual journey over the past eight weeks it seemed appropriate that I would talk about doubt. So, here it is...I don't know if there will be an audio version available or not. If you don't have time to read it I will summarize with this quote from Tennyson,

There is more faith in sincere doubt than in all your creeds.

Enjoy, and my God grant you mercy in your journey.

A great week at camp

We just returned from a wonderful week at King's Kamp. Too much fun!