On Doubt
My sermon on doubt a couple of Sundays ago has sparked some interesting conversations with church members in the last few days. I was pleasantly surprised to see that my friend Jim Evans wrote a column about doubt last week. Jim was my pastor at Crosscreek Baptist when I was in Birmingham. He is an excellent writer, and publishes articles regularly in several Alabama newspapers and Christian Magazines and news services. Besides that, he’s a good friend, he married Tanya and I, and served as a mentor to me (both formally and informally) as I explored my calling in seminary.
You can read the article yourself (follow the link above), but here’s the final few sentences that said what I wanted to say in my sermon. He always has a way of saying it better! 
Doubt is not the opposite of faith. Certitude is the opposite of faith. Doubt is an essential human quality that keeps us from being tricked into thinking we know what in fact cannot be known. We can have faith in God, but as humans we are incapable of grasping the totality of who God is.
A little healthy doubt keeps us honest and humble.
