But here, I want to conclude this article which stresses the significance of the “cleansing” in Acts 15:9 with an argument: If Cornelius was cleansed by “the faith” prior to Peter’s coming to Caesarea, then the “words whereby thou shalt be saved” in Acts 11:14 (which Peter woul...
sent to drain” and speaks of “betrayed desires,” while the chorus articulates the singer’s experience that “despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage.” In the midst of repeating this line over an over, there is an external voice saying, “What is lost can never be ...
3. Third, what is the significance of the reference in verse 10? Lot compared the east to Egypt with its Nile River, where everything was lush, fertile, and productive. 4. Fourth, what were the boundaries of Canaan? Sodom and Gomorrah were either just inside Canaan or outside altogether...
transforming even one that seems hopeless. It also shows, as does Kaufman’s debut novel, how Jesus cares about women’s needs for love, significance, and security: needs that were totally ignored and trampled in that society.
The significance of this find is that some archaeologists believe this was the setting of one of the most important chapters of the gospels. It is where thetrial of Jesustook place and where the Roman procurator Pontius Pilate sentenced Jesus to death....
In thisvideo, Jim Scudder of InGrace ministry interviews me on the spiritual significance of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, its history and future. One correction, the quote about the Middle Gate is inJeremiah 39:3. Tweet A grotto or a stable?
Yet there is more to the promise of the land than religious significance arid theological meaning;an essential interrela-tionship exists between the political and empirical reality of the land as a Jewish state and all biblical statements about its spir-itual or theological functions.The land of...
Lecture I in my Psychological Significance of the Biblical Stories series from May 16th at Isabel Bader Theatre in Toronto. In this lecture, I describe what I consider to be the idea of God, which is at least partly the notion of sovereignty and power, divorced from any concrete sovereign ...
significance were attached to the old name. The word Gilgal means a "circle," and also a "rolling away." A similar play upon a word was noticed in the case of GILEAD SEE GILEAD ; and Bethel is an example of an old name having attached to it a new significance (Ge 28:19; Ge 35...
One thought fills the mind of both king and prophet. Syria is the fierce enemy who is gradually destroying the country, and against Syria one final effort must be made before the aid of Elisha becomes unobtainable. What was the exact significance of the ceremonial employed, our ignorance of ...