Building [N] [E]From Sacred Space to Holy House The localized presence of God and God's glory among his people is central to the unfolding story of th...
Second Commandment THOU SHALT NOT MAKE UNTO THEE ANY GRAVEN IMAGE, OR ANY LIKENESS OFANYTHING THAT IS IN HEAVEN ABOVE, OR THAT IS IN THE EARTH BENEAT...
Justice [N] [T] [E](Heb. sedeq [q,d,x],mispat [f'P.vim];Gk. dikaiosyne [dikaiosuvnh]).God, the Righteous Judge. Justice is rooted in the very nature o...
Prayer [N] [T] [B] [S]is converse with God; the intercourse of the soul with God, not in contemplation or meditation, but in direct address to him. Pr...
Joel, Theology of The Book of Joel has been dated by conservative scholars from the ninth to the fifthcenturies b.c.: more recent scholars tend to dat...
Marriage [N] [T] [E] [S]An intimate and complementing union between a man and a woman in which the two become one physically, in the whole of life. Th...
Providence of God The word providence comes from the Latin providentia (Gk. pronoia [provnoia]) and means essentially foresight or making provision be...
Teach, Teacher Although several Hebrew words are translated teach in English translations of the Old Testament, two words predominate: yara [h'ry], to...
Religion [N]Due to the wide range of its usage, the English word religion (from Lat. religio) is not easily defined. Most commonly, however, it refers...
Mission Basic Definition. Mission is the divine activity of sending intermediaries, whether supernatural or human, to speak or do God's will so that h...
Priest, Christ as The Old Testament. The priestly activity of drawing near to God in sacrifice and prayer is introduced in the Old Testament through A...
MATTHEW. CHAPTER XXIII. The Last Appeal to Israel. SUMMARY.--The Scribes and Pharisees in Moses' Seat. The Burdens They Imposed. Their Eagerness ...
Amos, Theology of Like all biblical prophets, Amos spoke the oracles of Yahweh, Israel's God, to people in a particular context. In order to comprehen...
Sanctification [N] [T] [E]The generic meaning of sanctification is the state of proper functioning. To sanctify someone or something is to set that pe...
King, Kingship The terms king and kingship are common biblical words, occurringover 2, 500 times in the Old Testament and 275 times in the New Testame...
Church, the [T] Definition of the Church. The New Testament word for church is ekklesia [ejkklhsiva], which means the called out ones. In classical Gr...
Evil [N]As a prerequisite for any discussion of evil, moral evil must be distinguished from physical or natural evil. This essay uses the term moral e...
FIFTH PERIOD. FROM REHOBOAM AND JEROBOAM I. UNTIL THE END OF THE DIVIDED KINGDOM. THE PERIOD OF ISRAEL'S CONFLICTS WITH THE WORLD - EMPIRES, AND OF P...
ACTS OF THE APOSTLES. CHAPTER XXI. Paul Seized in the Temple. SUMMARY.--The Voyage to Tyre. The Prayer-Meeting on the Seashore. Abiding with Phili...
EFESIOS 6DIVISI?N DE P?RRAFOS EN LAS TRADUCCIONES MODERNASReina-Valera 1960(RV-1960)New Revised Standard Version(NRSV)Dios Habla Hoy(DHH)Biblia Jerusa...