Do you know the look of faith in God that will keep you? That will heal you? That will teach you? That will carry you? Do you know the look of faith that will make you look to the author and finisher of your faith, because you must have the will of God embedded in your heart?

Faith has the last word. Faith is the last word. When doubt says you aren't going to achieve your dreams no matter how hard you try, Faith says, move over doubt and let me in. When fear says you are never going to live and enjoy a healthy life, Faith says, step back and watch me perform a miracle! When poverty says you will not go to the finest university money can buy, Faith says back up and get the barrel ready, for "my God shall supply all of your needs according to His riches in glory."

This message has a three-fold purpose today.

First, to point you to the author and finisher of your faith.

Second, to present the way of the faithful.

Third, to combine all that is faithful and true in the message of the cross with all that you know to be of God and Godly.

The word of God bears a whole lot of weight upon the lives of the faithful. For it is God's word that sustains us in the midst of the troubling, sinful, and decaying endtimes.

In the wake of so much killing, life goes on. Why?? What is it about life that makes you want to pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again???

Even the basest sinner in the world seems to have a resolve that one of these old days things will get better somehow.

No matter how hard you try to make it better, things are always bound to get in the way. Things and thoughts and whatever else you least expect will jump up and block you.

But all too often, you are able to sidestep trouble only to sideswipe yet another troubling situation. You are faced on the one hand with life and before you can blink good, death takes the place of life. Nothing stays the same. Everything changes.

The only thing you can count on is Almighty God.