Author: Norm

“For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.” (John 1:17) This contrast shows us the difference between the witness and the Word.Jesus reveals God in a way that Moses did not, and could not.Moses asked to see God’s glory, and God gave him a glimpse (Exodus 33:18-20).Moses saw His glorious goodness…

“He himself was not the light; he came only as a witness to the light.” (John 1:8) John, like the other OT prophets, and the NT writers, were not the true light.The recorded witness of these prophets and writers are not the true light.In other words, the scriptures are not the true light, the Word of…

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” (John 1:1) John starts biography of Jesus very differently.He traces Jesus’s roots back to the beginning of the creation story.“In the beginning” (Genesis 1:1) God spoke creation into being by His Word.A person’s word is how they communicate their heart…

“While he was blessing them, he left them and was taken up into heaven.” (Luke 24:51) When we visit our daughter’s family in Europe, the hardest part is saying goodbye.I can relate to blessing them, and then leaving them.My leaving does not mean I do not love them, nor want them to be blessed.With our heart’s…

“You are witnesses of these things.” (Luke 24:48) The first disciples witnessed Jesus in person.Their experiences form the basis of everyone else’s experience of Jesus.They testified to what they saw and heard and experienced in Jesus.We cannot fully do the same thing as them, but we can still be witnesses.We witness to what we experience with…

“Touch me and see; a ghost does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have.” (Luke 24:39) We cannot touch Jesus, but the first disciples could.And through Jesus, they were experiencing the image of the invisible God.It is interesting to me that God showed up in the Garden as a human.“The man and his…

“How Jesus was recognized by them when he broke the bread.” (Luke 24:35) These disciples finally recognize Jesus. It was not His physical appearance or presence that helped them recognize Him.Neither was it the way He explained the scriptures to them.Their hearts were burning when He taught them, but this did not open their eyes.It was…

“Were not our hearts burning within us while he talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?” (Luke 24:32) Jesus was with these disciples, though they didn’t realize it.Totally unaware to them, they were being discipled by Jesus.And when they broke bread with Jesus, they still did not realize it.But through that…

“He explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself.” (Luke 24:27) Jesus is alive, and is still teaching His disciples.He walks them through the Jewish Bible to show them how it points to Him.I believe we still need Jesus to explain this to us.This is why I spend most of my time…

“Then they remembered his words.” (Luke 24:8) On multiple occasions Jesus explained what would happen to Him.They heard Him say that He was suffer, be crucified, and then rise on the third day.Yet for some reason they did not, or could not, hear what He said.It went totally against what they were expecting, and so they…