The Rev Alissa: Sermons
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The Rev Alissa: Sermons
The 12th Sunday After Pentecost: Do You Trust
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The Rev. Canon Alissa Newton
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Season 2
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Episode 12
“ We tend to think that belief means intellectual assent, or factual certainty. So if you hear that you need to believe in God, and in Jesus, you might think that you need to come to intellectual certainty about the existence of God or divinity of Jesus. We talk about ‘holding’ beliefs, as if they are ideas we put in boxes and save up. But just like the talk I give people about the beliefs we proclaim in our creeds, the belief Jesus is talking about here -in him- is not assent to an idea. It is participation in a relationship.”
Text: John 6:35, 41-51
Preached for St Philip’s, Harlem
8/11/2024