In Search of a Confident Faith Quotes

“God loved me enough to make me aware, at a deep experiential level, of my own pride and sinfulness, and my desperate need for his mercy and continuing work in my life as a believer.”
― J.P. Moreland, In Search of a Confident Faith: Overcoming Barriers to Trusting in God

“I am the prodigal son every time I search for unconditional love where it cannot be found. Why do I keep ignoring the place of true love and persist in looking for it elsewhere? Why do I keep leaving home where I am called a child of God, the Beloved of the Father? ”9”
― J.P. Moreland, In Search of a Confident Faith: Overcoming Barriers to Trusting in God

“The right approach to life is one that hungers to know as many truths as one can and to avoid as many falsehoods as possible.”
― J.P. Moreland, In Search of a Confident Faith: Overcoming Barriers to Trusting in God

“Douglas Moo notes that therefore, while not denying that some in the church may have the gift of healing, James encourages all Christians, and especially those charged with pastoral oversight, to be active in prayer for healing. . . . Similarly, James’ promise that the Lord will raise up (egeiro) the sick person reflects the language of NT healing stories (Matt 9:6; Mark 1:31; Acts 3:7).”
― J.P. Moreland, In Search of a Confident Faith: Overcoming Barriers to Trusting in God

“Our current Western cultural plausibility structure elevates science and scorns and mocks religion, especially Christian teaching. As a result, believers in Western cultures do not as readily believe the supernatural worldview of the Bible in comparison with their Third World brothers and sisters.”
― J.P. Moreland, In Search of a Confident Faith: Overcoming Barriers to Trusting in God

“Merely exhorting people to be more committed to God—“just have more faith”—seldom produces greater confidence and dedicated trust in God. Rather, what is needed is a realistic picture of a flourishing life lived deeply in tune with God ’s kingdom—a life that is so utterly compelling that failure to exercise greater commitment to life in that kingdom will feel like a foolish, tragic missed opportunity for entering into something truly dramatic and desirable.”
― J.P. Moreland, In Search of a Confident Faith: Overcoming Barriers to Trusting in God

“We need not get distracted by the seeming defeat or troubles of our daily lives (“what is seen”), because this affliction is actually being used by God to transform our character (2 Corinthians 3:18) so we can become the kind of citizens who will flourish in his future kingdom (“what is not seen”).”
― J.P. Moreland, In Search of a Confident Faith: Overcoming Barriers to Trusting in God

“Furthermore, our initial perception of God is largely formed by our interaction with our parents and other early caregivers. As children, to be safe, we developed ways of coping with our imperfect parents. And due to these varied challenging experiences in our childhood, perhaps some of us may wonder how safe God really is.”
― J.P. Moreland, In Search of a Confident Faith: Overcoming Barriers to Trusting in God

“Satan uses any means, ethical or unethical, to distract us from trusting in God, drawing us away to trust in ourselves by moving us into fear, into anger, into pride.”
― J.P. Moreland, In Search of a Confident Faith: Overcoming Barriers to Trusting in God

“This can only be done by making these cultural assumptions explicit, by exposing them for the intellectual frauds they actually are, and by being vigilant in keeping them before one’s mind and spotting their presence in the ordinary reception of input each day from newspapers, magazines, office conversation, television, movies and so on.”
― J.P. Moreland, In Search of a Confident Faith: Overcoming Barriers to Trusting in God