Red Rocks Church Weekend Messages

Episode: Foolish Faith
Speaker: Christine Caine
Date: January 31, 2026

Episode Overview

In this electrifying message, Christine Caine calls Red Rocks Church to embrace a bold, “foolish” faith—a belief in God that is willing to risk appearing unsophisticated or irrational in a skeptical world. Drawing from her new book The Faith to Flourish and her own story of miraculous transformation, Christine unpacks biblical episodes of faith that caused God Himself to marvel, and challenges listeners to move beyond comfortable Christianity into lives marked by expectancy for miracles.

Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Welcome and Context

• The episode opens with acknowledgment of all Red Rocks campuses, including Denver, Austin, Brussels, and correctional facility locations (00:08–00:55).
• Jill emphasizes:

  “No matter what you’ve been through...no matter what you believe right now...you’re gonna be loved and welcomed and valued. You’ve already been prayed for. Welcome home. Welcome to Red Rocks Church.” (00:30)

2. Introduction of Christine Caine

• Christine is introduced with high energy, with her work at A21 (anti-human trafficking) and experience as a global church leader being highlighted (03:17–04:55).

  “This couple has experienced the living God. They have seen miracle after miracle after miracle...” (03:36)

3. A Life of Flourishing Despite Darkness

• Christine shares about her new book, Faith to Flourish, which anchors on Psalm 92:8 and the calling to flourish even amid darkness (08:59–11:52).

  “In the midst of that adversity [David] says, but I am like a green olive tree, flourishing in the house of God...Depending on the faithful love of God forever.” (10:29)

• She laments the increasing darkness and “ever-loving mind” loss in the wider world, encouraging listeners that life with Jesus is meant to flourish, not stagnate or shrink (09:40–11:40).
• Christine, turning 60 soon, says:

  “I am not just having one birthday. If you live this long, you get 365 days. I’m doing 60 things I’ve never done before.” (12:07)

4. Foolish Faith: Biblical Perspective

Luke 7:1–10: The Roman Centurion

• Christine delves into the story of the centurion who asks Jesus to “just say the word” to heal his servant (14:15–17:56).

  “Apparently there is a kind of faith that is available that causes the God of the universe to be amazed.” (18:46)

• She notes the centurion’s compassion, humility, and “unbelonging” faith—he was not of Israel, yet believed powerfully.

Mark 6:1–6: Jesus Marvels at Unbelief

• The only other time Jesus is said to be “amazed” (Greek: thavmazo) is at the unbelief of those in His own hometown (19:00–21:17).

  “Often a familiarity with Jesus breeds a laziness in our faith.” (21:56)

• Christine challenges:

  “In our generation, we’re spending so much time trying to be amazing that we’re no longer amazing God with our faith.” (22:18)

5. Amazing vs. Unbelief: A Modern Problem

• Christine observes that in our era, access to endless spiritual resources and church familiarity breeds passivity, not faith (22:00–22:44).

• She critiques the performative, image-driven faith of many Christians today:

  “We post our Bible, but we haven’t opened it and read it in three years.” (23:37)

• She frames faith as essentially “irrational” and “not cool”:

  “There is nothing rational ultimately about our faith. Our whole faith is predicated on the fact that a dead Jewish man rose again 2,000 years ago...What we believe is weird.” (24:10; 25:24)

6. Faith That Looks Foolish

• Christine shares anecdotes from the underground Chinese church and how desperation, not sophistication, birthed revival and miracles (27:00–29:59).

• She relates how second-generation Christians risk losing faith by becoming complacent and sophisticated, rather than desperate for God’s move:

  “...that kind of Christianity where you really—God, the Holy Spirit, miracle stuff—that’s for simple people...We just have a flat sort of, you know, we don’t really believe God for anything.” (28:40)

• The real goal: faith that causes Jesus to marvel as with the centurion, not as in His hometown where nothing happened because of unbelief.

  “My question is, will He marvel at our faith or our unbelief?” (30:30)

7. Personal Story: God’s Miracle in Christine’s Life

• Christine tells of her own background: growing up in poverty, suffering long-term sexual abuse, and learning in adulthood that she was adopted with an unnamed birth certificate (31:36–35:48).
  • Dramatic moment:

    “Church, I was stunned...The very first thing I said was, ‘Am I still Greek?’...but the next thing that came out of my mouth...I said, ‘Before I was formed in my mother’s womb, whose ever womb that was, God knew me...He fashioned all of my days before as yet there was one of them. I’m fearfully and wonderfully made.” (34:26–34:54)

• Declares supernatural truth outweighs facts:

  “Although I don’t know the facts, I do know there is a force on the planet much higher than the facts. And it’s called the truth of the Word of God.” (35:18)

  • Cites Ephesians 2:10—her identity comes from being God’s workmanship, not from human labels or origins.

8. Examples of “Foolish” Faith in the Bible

• Christine creatively retells moments when biblical figures had to look “foolish” for faith:
  • Noah building the ark before rain existed (37:43)
  • Moses holding a stick at the Red Sea (38:10)
  • Sarah shopping maternity clothes at 90 (38:46)
  • David facing Goliath with a slingshot (39:32)
  • Esther risking her life before the king (39:45)
  • Mary explaining the virgin birth (39:49)
  • Peter walking on water (39:57)
  • The woman with the issue of blood reaching for Jesus’ garment (40:08)
  • Paul and Silas singing in prison (40:24)
  • Jesus Himself, naked on the cross (40:56)
• Drives home:

  “No one who has ever done anything for the Lord has ever looked sophisticated.” (40:05)

9. Outcome of Foolish Faith: Miracles Happen

• Recaps: each of the biblical figures saw miracles on the other side of “foolish” faith (41:32–42:25).
  • “Noah and his whole family was saved...Sarah, she did give birth to Isaac...Jesus Christ got off that cross and defeated hell and death...The same Spirit that raised Jesus Christ from the dead lives on the inside of you and me.” (41:32–42:25)
• Encourages: We can expect God to move miraculously in our “dark hour”—as we trade sophistication for surrendered, expectant faith.

10. Invitation & Closing Challenge

• Christine issues a heartfelt invitation for listeners to make a fresh start with Jesus (42:25–43:32).

  “Friend, if you know this Jesus that I’m talking about tonight...not do you know about Him, but do you know Him?” (42:25)

• Leads the congregation in a salvation prayer (43:35–45:28).

• Final charge: Let’s be a church whose faith causes the God of the universe to marvel—because when God marvels, miracles happen. (45:29)

Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On “foolish faith”:

  “There is nothing cool about amazing faith. It is a desperation that says, ‘I need God. I need His power. And I don’t care if someone thinks I’m amazing.’” (26:05)

• On passivity and complacency:

  “Often a familiarity with Jesus breeds a laziness in our faith.” (21:56)

• On living testimony:

  “It’d be just like God to say...I’m going to take an unnamed, unwanted, abused, adopted chick from the back of Sydney, Australia, and...use her to open the prison doors for those that are still in bondage and rescue people out of slavery.” (35:48)

• On identity in Christ:

  “Although I don’t know the facts, I do know there is a force on the planet much higher than the facts. And it’s called the truth of the Word of God.” (35:18)

• Closing challenge:

  “Let’s be a church that has the kind of faith that causes the God of the universe to marvel. Because when the God of the universe marvels, miracles happen.” (45:29)

Important Timestamps

• 00:30 – Jill’s welcome to all campuses
• 03:17 – Introduction of Christine Caine
• 08:59 – Christine introduces Faith to Flourish, the world’s darkness, and flourishing faith
• 14:15 – Christine reads and unpacks Luke 7:1-10 (Centurion’s Faith)
• 18:46 – “There is a kind of faith...that causes the God of the universe to be amazed.”
• 19:00 – Mark 6:1-6: Jesus “amazed” at unbelief
• 22:18 – “We’re spending so much time trying to be amazing...we’re no longer amazing God with our faith.”
• 27:00 – Christine’s story of the Chinese underground church
• 31:36 – Personal testimony: Adoption, brokenness, finding identity in Christ
• 37:43 – Retelling moments of “foolish” biblical faith
• 42:25 – Direct invitation to accept Jesus
• 45:29 – Closing challenge: be a church whose faith makes God marvel

Conclusion

Christine Caine’s stirring message urges believers to leave behind complacency and respectability for a “foolish” faith that astonishes both the watching world and God Himself. Through biblical examples, personal vulnerability, and prophetic exhortation, she calls Red Rocks Church to pursue a faith willing to risk, trust, and expect the miraculous in 2026 and beyond.