Produced by Charles Aldarondo, Tiffany Vergon, Bob McKillip and PG Distributed Proofreaders THE MENDENHALL LECTURES, THIRD SERIES DELIVERED AT DEPAUW UNIVERSITY UNDERSTANDING THE SCRIPTURES BY FRANCIS J. McCONNELL Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church
Jesus has all the experience required to help us along our healing journey. Hebrews 5:8–9 speaks volumes to me not only about Him but also about my life and yours. Jesus needed certain experience in order to truly understand our pain and become our High Priest who can help us heal. My...
Our response to Scripture should be one of action and transformation, allowing it to change our hearts and lives. Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers (32)Did not our heart burn within us . . .?--More accurately,Was not our heart burning . . .? the tense both of this and of the...
Over my last 25+ years of serving the Lord, I have noticed that this is the way He seems to initiate change in my life. And when I look at the financial transformation that has happened in my life, I see no better way to explain it than the principle of the seed. Let’s see the...
Therefore, in the canonical texts from the pre-Qin dynasties onwards, the transformation of a woman into a man was a very special phenomenon and was regarded as a portent for a change of dynasty. For example, in “Condemnation of War”, Mozi said that in the time of the last emperor of...
We can see that for the Church Fathers and Saints, this personal transformation through grace is the primary purpose of reading/interpreting Scripture. We see this not only from their explicit statements, but also from the analogies they have frequently made through the ages about Scripture. In ...