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Every month a different Palos area religious leader answers a question about religion.Dictionary.com defines faith as "confidence or trust in a person or thing." Each day we exercise faith. We have faith that everyone will stop at the red light. We have no idea where our food was grown, raised or processed, yet we are confident that it is OK to eat. But there's more to faith than these. From the scriptures we learn: "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." (Hebrews 11:1). Faith that the Word of God is indeed God speaking to us and that it is true. Faith that Jesus exists, that He is the Son of God, and that He loves us. For a person to…