Welcome to my about page on the Faith Category from my blog. Truth is the quality or state of being true. Something that is true can be seen as something in accordance with fact or reality. This is something people often want to look at as fluid or changing. I take the view that there are certain truths that are self evident by my own existence on this earth. By clear observation, I am a created being, in a created world. The Faith Category is my theological study of those truths, my beliefs in Jesus as Savior, and those stories that go along with my life as a “Believer.” The page on My Testimony explores this in a little more detail.
It’s hard to put into words what God has done in and with my life. To explain what all God has done in my life is a difficult thing to put down on a page. How does one explain the countless prayers that have been answered in my lifetime? How do you fully explain a changed life?
Collectively this site, my blog, my life itself, is my honest look at my faith. I try to live it out, as imperfect as it is, but it’s a part of the air I breathe. You can read my personal testimony here, but it’s an unfinished story. As much as anything else here on this site, I hope it is an honest look at what I call life from my vantage point.
Some of us start off in life, then go through life without a sense of purpose in being, I think. I choose the other approach. It can be displayed in many different forms of what we think our own purpose here in this world is to be, it can be lived day to day with or without purpose and understanding, but eventually most of us come to a time when we are searching for those answers, I hope.
It is what we find when we are searching that is important. Just because you are already a Believer doesn’t mean you are going to know exactly what God’s purpose in your life will finally be, that is up to God. When we search for meaning in life, true contentment and happiness are ultimately found in understanding we are a fallen, sinful people, in need of a savior. True happiness is found in our commitment to the Lord, and our faith (Hebrews 11:1) in knowing we will spend eternity with our Creator, not in having that certain career, or in that next consumer purchase.
We know this, yet as Believers in Christ we still ride a roller coaster of ups and downs where sometimes we are close to the Lord and sometimes far away. I often thought as a Christian if we weren’t always close to God all the time that there was something fundamentally wrong with our faith, or better yet, if our choices are different than those other Believers we know, we aren’t true Christians. She drinks, he doesn’t, he has a tattoo, they baptize with to much water, they don’t use enough.
As Believers we still search for meaning to strengthen our faith, understand our doubts, fears, and even judgments of others. This doesn’t stop just because we accepted Christ as our Savior, they could become more pronounced. Just take a brief look at Job’s life. God made us all in His image, yet each one of us is different. Each of us has different ideas, beliefs even within our own faith, and direction our life follows.
In the increasingly pluralistic world that we now live in, where people think everything and anything can be God, we have to continue to look to the one true God of creation, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, for our ultimate guidance. God is not what we make him out to be, he is not some always changing being, he is the single objective reality and truth in our ever changing world.
The world finds it hard to accept that Christ made the ultimate sacrifice for us, by dying on the cross, paying the ultimate cost for our sins, which we alone could never do, and it is up to us to live out that truth in our daily lives. Once Christ becomes the central focus of our lives, everything else, although not unimportant, is just details.
Recent Posts
The entire Faith Category list is available if you would like to scroll through all the posts.
- My Top 5 Books on Prayer
I have never really considered myself a book reader. Yet reading is probably one of the most consistent things I… Read more: My Top 5 Books on Prayer - Great Books on Technology and Faith
Every year I wish I had read more books. Once i get into a book I’m good, but when i… Read more: Great Books on Technology and Faith - God’s Call to Go on a Mission Trip
God, please send someone else. This is what Moses said to God in Exodus 4:13 when he was asked to… Read more: God’s Call to Go on a Mission Trip - M25 Mission Camp in Atlanta
There are several entries that have been sitting in my drafts for a while that I’ve trying to get posted,… Read more: M25 Mission Camp in Atlanta - The Behemoth is Art, Poetry, Theological Prose
You may not understand The Behemoth’s orthodoxy because you are viewing art and poetry, not a theological exegesis or apologetic… Read more: The Behemoth is Art, Poetry, Theological Prose