Now we come to the great faith chapter of the Bible. Some have called this chapter “Faith’s Hall of Fame.” The Christian life is a life of faith. Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. (Hebrew 11:1) Noah Webster defines faith as “the assent of the mind or understanding to the truth of what God has revealed.” Without God’s revelation, there can be no reliable faith. So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by
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