Notes
Notes
Chapter 1: Moses Asks a Question
1. Raymond W. Albright, Focus on Infinity: A Life of Phillips Brooks (New York: Macmillan, 1961), 349.
2. Theodore H. Epp, Moses, Vol. 1 (Lincoln, NE: Back to the Bible, 1975), 86.
Chapter 4: The Light of the World
1. Jaroslav Pelikan, The Vindication of Tradition (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984), 65–66.
2. Dr. and Mrs. Howard Taylor, The Biography of James Hudson Taylor (London: China Inland Mission, 1965), 162–63.
Chapter 5: The Door
1. The NIV translates the word thura as “gate,” but the more familiar word is “door,” used by the KJV, NKJV, NEB, ESV, RSV, and NASB.
2. The Hebrew word Hanukkah means “dedication.”
3. A ninth candle stands in the middle of the menorah. It is used to light the other eight.
Chapter 8: The Way, the Truth, and the Life
1. But see Exod. 4:22; Deut. 32:6; Isa. 63:16; 64:8; Jer. 3:4, 19; Mal. 1:6; 2:10.
2. For more about God’s Word as food, see Matt. 4:4; 1 Pet. 2:2; 1 Cor. 3:1–4; Heb. 5:11–14; Job 23:12; Jer. 15:16. Please read these verses.
3. Material in this section is adapted from my book on the parable of the Prodigal Son, Another Chance at Life, and is used by permission of the publishers, Christian Literature Crusade (2009).
Chapter 9: The True Vine
1. For those who did not study Chemistry 101, H2O is water and H2SO4 is sulfuric acid.
Chapter 11: “I Am Jesus”
1. In 1 Timothy 1:15–16, Paul says that his conversion experience was “an example for those who would believe in him,” and in 1 Corinthians 15:8 that he was “abnormally born.” I have never met or heard of a Christian who saw Jesus in His glory and heard Him speak as Paul did. I think Paul was referring to his beloved fellow Jews who would one day see their Messiah and believe in Him (Zech. 12:10; Matt. 24:30–31). Paul was “born early” as an example of what would happen to the Jews at the return of Christ.
2. See Acts 13:47; 26:18, 23; Rom. 13:12; 1 Cor. 4:5; 2 Cor. 4:4–6; 6:14; 11:14; Eph. 1:18; 5:8–14; Phil. 2:15; Col. 1:12; 1 Thess. 5:5; 1 Tim. 6:16; 2 Tim. 1:10.
3. D. L. Moody, Glad Tidings (New York: E. B. Treat, 1876), 291–92.
4. James S. Stewart, A Man in Christ (New York: Harper Brothers, n.d.), 83.
5. James Stalker, The Life of St. Paul (Old Tappan, NJ: Fleming H. Revell, 1950), 31.
Chapter 12: Living and Serving in the Present Tense
1. A. W. Tozer, Born After Midnight (Harrisburg, PA: Christian Publications, 1959), 68.