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Living is Believing

Acts 9:36-43      Psalm 23:1-6      John 10:22-30 Which comes first, faith or action? You might think that it’s faith, but in reality, it’s not always quite so clear. Sometimes it is the experience of faith that moves us to put it into practice. Sometimes we have to see others put faith into practice before we even begin to see how it might work for us. Let me give you an example that has nothing to do with faith in God, but everything to do with belief. As a child, I believed in a creature called “the Wampus.” It was something like a cross between a raccoon, a mountain lion, and a beaver. It had a terrible disposition. I believed in this creature’s existence because they had one in a cage at a little country store not far from my grandparent’s house in North Georgia. My brother was the one to discover it. On one side of the box you could see in, and you could just make out the raccoon tail. The sign clearly warned you not to open ...