{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbrad-thurston.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Fmeasuring-faith-WWC3KK7v","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"Measuring Faith","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/928b8180-b57f-49dc-a827-65b6a9112d3b/607f1437-d573-4572-b5a7-10e23a1dbab9/842b585e-0684-4bb3-8605-41ae790ff82d.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"<iframe src=\"https://player.simplecast.com/8be2eb00-fc5f-4aa7-9ef0-710c56fc750e\" height=\"200\" width=\"100%\" title=\"Measuring Faith\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"></iframe>","height":200,"description":"How do you measure faith and growth in faith?  Is your faith stronger today than a year ago? What is it that propels our faith and trust in God?  People talk about saving faith, growth in faith, and development of faith, the fruit of faith, and the need for faith.  Jesus talks about little faith, and also how little you need to move mountains. Romans instructs us that faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God (Rom 10:17). Paul also writes that God has given to each one a measure of faith. (Rom 12:3) How can we know when we reach our potential in faith? The goal of our rowing in faith is as follows: God invests in our lives through leaders with a focus that “we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ.” (Eph. ‭4:13)‬ How do we measure that we are on this road of growth?  I think the secret lies in these two passages from Luke 18:1-17‬"}