All truth ...

I thought I'd begin by letting you know where I am coming from.

In college, I had a professor -- of sociology to be exact -- make the statement that "All truth is God's truth." Well, truth be told, I wasn't sure I was on board with that notion at first. It sounded sort of relativist, not a real cut and dried world view. But it grew on me and while I may no longer remember as much sociology as I should, I never forgot that.

For what he intended by that statement was that when you see the world from a Biblical perspective, there is truth to be found. Evaluate a movie, a book and even personal experience with a Christian eye.

It's not really a new concept. When it comes to seeing a flawed world through God's eyes, we're late to the party. The Bible is filled with stories of imperfect people, deceitful people and untruthful people ... people that delivered God's truth, sometimes willingly and sometimes unwittingly. Abraham, Jacob, Samson, David, Rahab, Judas, Peter, Saul/Paul just to name a few. And even today, just in reading their stories, we learn God's truth in spite of and because of their sin.

So it is with that critical eye that I approach things, so while you may wonder in future posts, "Where in the world is he going with this?", sooner or later I hope to arrive at God's truth.

Of course, Jesus said it best in John 14:6, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me."

In the beginning ...

Welcome to the debut installment of this blog. It's pretty much safe to say that anyone reading this knows me, but for the purposes of this blog, I am heretofore known as j2p or J2P. Consider it my pen name.

And that is the origin of the blog name. I thought about telling you it meant from Jesus to the Pentateuch, or Joseph to Paul, or even justification to prophecy. But it's just not that complicated.

I hope this becomes a place where you can check in for some devotional thoughts, stories and ideas.
It is intended for those who need more faith, need sustained faith or are just needing any faith at all.

Thanks for reading and I'll see you next post!

J2P