Introduction

Introduction

The world of "blogging."

One would think that with the advent of these technologies, I would have taken the opportunity to create my own blog many moons ago. Alas, I am a little late jumping on the proverbial bandwagon of blogging.

I can thank my good friend, Scott, for introducing me to the potential effectiveness of blogs. In fact, I highly recommend you check his insights out, as I am certain you will find his thoughts and commentary appropriate for our times.

Check him out at: scottsworldtoday.blogspot.com


As with any type of narrative commentary, it certainly provides the reader some additional insight by introducing some information about the author.

Clearly, I have to be careful in doing this, so as to not lose formality or credibility, but I would like to share a little bit of who I am, which, thankfully, is not the most important thing you will have the opportunity to read.

My name is Christopher, most people call me Chris. I am relatively young, 25 years of age, and I am married to a marvelous and wonderful woman who provides an immeasurable amount of joy that is intricately woven into my life.

I am a middle school teacher (6th-8th) and my wife teaches first grade. Although this is my "full-time" occupation, I am tremendously blessed to serve as part-time youth pastor at First Baptist Church Lake City. Our love runs deep for these young people.

The combination of these two jobs has given us both a highly unique perspective on our world. A perspective that, at the risk of sounding conceded, helps us to effectively minister to and address the needs of our world in a variety of ways.


Purpose of this Blog: Veritas de Christos

"Veritas" is Latin for "truth," while "de" is a commonly used foreign term for "of," and, naturally, "Christos," is Greek for "Christ," meaning, "the anointed one."

Place them all together, and you have the English equivalent of "Christ's Truth" or "Truth of Christ" as I would personally like to have it labeled.

We live in a world that often draws lines of contention over political issues. Understandably, these beliefs and opinions run deep, and I will not shy away from offering my personal commentary from time to time on these issues.

However, amidst the smashing sounds and trumpeters of various political parties and "movements," the still small voice that has molded history with great care still breaks through to reverberate in a downcast world if we would only take the time to listen.

Jesus Christ made a very reasonable statement to one of His Disciples. Jesus said, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."

To propositional position yourself as "truth incarnate" is a very powerful statement that, though easy to miss with a cursory reading, completely frames not only your life and mine, but all of history in one solitary word: truth.

Pilate, who is infamously known as being the Roman who had Jesus crucified (though this, from a theological standpoint, isn't accurate, you and I helped out just as much as Pilate) is also remembered for asking Jesus a question.

"What is truth?"

Sadly, Pilate did not wait around for the answer, but instead stormed away, despite looking at truth incarnate pupil to pupil.

This seems to be the predicament we are in today. It is not that there is a lack of truth, but merely the suppression of it.

What are we to do about this? Can we do anything about this?

How does the Truth of Christ shine into the hearts of the weary and enlighten those who believe they are already enlightened?

Where does Jesus stay and live in this day and age?

He answered the same question over 2,000 years ago in the first chapter of John's Gospel when He was posed that question:

"Come and you will see."

Let's discover "Veritas" together. God bless and stay tuned.