Author: Norm

PLEASE READ THIS FIRST: Psalm 2 What do you sense the Lord saying to you in this passage?

PLEASE READ THIS FIRST: Genesis 10-12 What do you sense the Lord saying to you in this passage?

PLEASE READ THIS FIRST: Genesis 7-9 What do you sense the Lord saying to you in this passage?

PLEASE READ THIS FIRST: Matthew 3:13-17 What do you sense the Lord saying to you in this passage? I want to try something. I wonder if some are reading my reflections first. Try listening for the Lord in the passage first, and post your own comment. My comments are not meant to shape yours, but to…

PLEASE READ THIS FIRST: Matthew 3:7-12 What do you sense the Lord saying to you in this passage? I want to try something. I wonder if some are reading my reflections first. Try listening for the Lord in the passage first, and post your own comment. My comments are not meant to shape yours, but to…

PLEASE READ THIS FIRST: Matthew 3:1-6 “This is he who was spoken of through the prophet Isaiah…” (Matthew 3:3) If there is a quote in the bible, do you ever check where it is from? Matthew links John to Isaiah’s “voice of one calling in the wilderness” (Isaiah 40:3). If we look closer at Isaiah 40, you see who…

PLEASE READ THIS FIRST: Matthew 2:19-23 “Having been warned in a dream…” (Matthew 2:22) I believe in spiritual guidance, that God helps and directs us through life. Here we have God using a dream to guide Joseph in his role as Jesus’s father. I don’t think God has used dreams for me, but He has directed me…

PLEASE READ THIS FIRST: Psalm 1 “Blessed is the one… who meditates on his law day and night.” (Psalms 1:2) What is the key to a blessed (or happy, or full) life? Ultimately, the key is living as God designed and created us to live. Adam and Eve (and us with them) have tried to find happiness…

PLEASE READ THIS FIRST: Genesis 4-6 “You will be a restless wanderer on the earth.” (Genesis 4:12) The word ‘lost’ in christian circles seems to mean doomed or ‘going to hell’. But a child ‘lost’ in a mall is not doomed but desperate, needing help. I see all humanity – including myself – in this lost condition….

PLEASE READ THIS FIRST: Genesis 1-3 “The Lord God put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.” (Genesis 2:15) God has created an amazing, beautiful world, and put humans in charge of it. Our world is a screwed up mess, not because of God but because of humans. There is…