Faith – Page 5 – Luke's Thoughts

What does it mean to have faith in God?

I believe that God is continually at work on me. Even when I don’t see it or feel it. One of the areas where I feel like He’s working on me, is simply trusting Him. Especially when I am STILL looking for consistent, full-time work. But what does having faith in God really mean? ItContinue reading “What does it mean to have faith in God?”

Two major flaws of humanity

Every so often, I find that I have nagging questions in my mind that I just have to answer. Otherwise they’ll continue to bug me and nag at me until I find an answer that makes sense to me. I’m having one of those days again today. This all started a little bit ago whenContinue reading “Two major flaws of humanity”

Rejoicing in God (even when we can’t always see Him)

Hi everybody! I know I’ve been MIA for over a week since my last post. Chalk that one up to recovering from a NASTY case of the flu. The sneezing, coughing, fever, and everything else definitely sucks. But the worst part, at least to me, is having absolutely no energy to do anything. Other thanContinue reading “Rejoicing in God (even when we can’t always see Him)”

Recognizing God

I am often restless. Often never fully happy with where I currently am in my life. I have plenty more happy, and good days than bad ones, but it often feels like a little something is missing. I think this is because I often feel pressure by society to be at a certain place atContinue reading “Recognizing God”

What am I searching for?

Have you ever had your beliefs seriously challenged or changed? If you haven’t, you’re not growing or living. And if you haven’t allowed yourself to be seriously challenged at least once in your life, you’re missing out. There is a certain skill to allowing yourself to seriously hear different viewpoints, while still keeping your faithContinue reading “What am I searching for?”

Gnostic Gospels

This has definitely been a change of pace for me over the last few days, but I have been interested in reading something called the Gnostic Gospels. That is, the lost and rejected gospels attributed to Peter, Thomas, Mary Magdalene, and even Judas Iscariot. Most people are interested in a standard Bible study of theContinue reading “Gnostic Gospels”