Doubt, Uncertainty and Belief

A sermon on John 20:19-31 preached at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, Chelsea New York, on the Second Sunday in Easter, April 19th 2009

I am a bit of a doubter.  Actually that’s a lie.  I am a big doubter.  If this were an Doubter’s Anonymous meeting, I’d probably say “Hi, my name is Blane and I’m a doubter.”   There are some things that I just have a hard time believing in.  And there are other things in my life that, if I hadn’t experienced them for myself – seen them with my own eyes, witnessed them for myself – I would never have believed them if someone else had told me it were so.