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Featured studies
12 results- StudyReading Rabbinic Sources as a Christian, MannaFestA featured study on this subject, with its Scripture, its sources and its figures.
- StudyThe Bible and SlaveryThe historical frame, what the Law actually protects, Paul's letter to a slave-owner, and the objection presented at full strength, unsoftened: a contested topic handled honestly, no triumphalism.
- StudyChurch History: the great cloud of witnessesTwo thousand years of the church: ten eras, the martyrs, reformers, missionaries, and revivalists who ran the race before us.
- StudyChristianity 101: ten fundamentalsThe ten fundamentals of the faith for the new believer or the curious reader, each rooted in Scripture.
- StudyPraying the Hard PsalmsThe imprecatory psalms, unedited: every defence at full strength with its limits, and what a Christian actually does with these words.
Verses
3 results- Verse1 Peter 4:16But if you suffer as a Christian, do not be ashamed, but glorify God that you bear that name.
- VerseActs 26:28Then Agrippa said to Paul, “Can you persuade me in such a short time to become a Christian?”
- VerseActs 11:26and when he found him, he brought him back to Antioch. So for a full year they met together with the church and taught large numbers of people. The disciples were first called…
People
1 resultPlaces
2 results- PlaceMiletusThe port where Paul, hurrying to Jerusalem, summoned the Ephesian elders for the farewell address that is the only speech in Acts delivered to a Christian audience.
- PlaceAntioch (Syrian)Third city of the Roman empire and the first great Gentile church; where the disciples were first called Christians and every Pauline mission was launched and reported.
Manuscripts
3 results- ManuscriptCodex SinaiticusA 4th-century Greek manuscript of the Christian Bible, one of the two earliest substantially complete witnesses to the Septuagint and New Testament.
- ManuscriptCodex VaticanusA 4th-century Greek manuscript of the Christian Bible held at the Vatican Library; the other principal Alexandrian witness alongside Sinaiticus.
- ManuscriptThe Crosby–Schøyen CodexOne of the oldest bound books in the world — an Egyptian Christian's reader, in Coptic, with 1 Peter and Jonah inside.
Events
1 resultWords (Strong's)
- WordG5546 Χριστιανός · Christianós (Greek)a Christian, i.e. follower of Christ. The Greek word stands 3 times in the original text.
- WordG4609 Σίλας · Sílas (Greek)Silas, a Christian. The Greek word stands 12 times in the original text.
- WordG4736 Στέφανος · Stéphanos (Greek)Stephanus, a Christian. The Greek word stands 7 times in the original text.
- WordG3138 Μάρκος · Márkos (Greek)Marcus, a Christian. The Greek word stands 8 times in the original text.
- WordG571 ἄπιστος · ápistos (Greek)(actively) disbelieving, i.e. without Christian faith (specially, a heathen). The Greek word stands 23 times in the original text.
Themes
5 results- ThemeSufferingSuffering enters the story at the Fall. Genesis 3 turns childbirth into pain and labor into toil, and the rest of the Old Testament treats hardship as the ordinary texture of…
- ThemeHope**Biblical hope is not optimism.** It is confident expectation anchored in God's character and God's word, held by people who often cannot see the outcome and sometimes cannot…
- ThemeMercyMercy in Scripture is not a mood God occasionally feels but a self-disclosed name. When the LORD passes before Moses on Sinai and proclaims who He is, the first words out are…
- ThemeObedienceObedience enters the story at the very first command. In Eden, the boundary God sets — one tree, one prohibition — is the whole test of the relationship (Gen 2:17), and the…
- ThemeResurrectionThe hope of resurrection surfaces gradually across the Old Testament before it becomes explicit. Job — likely the oldest book in the canon — already confesses a living Redeemer…
Topics
2 resultsApologetics
2 results- ApologeticsThe Problem of Evil: Christian ResponsesJ. L. Mackie framed the logical problem of evil in Mind in 1955; in 1982 he conceded that Alvin Plantinga's free will defence had answered it, and the philosophical debate…
- ApologeticsCodex Sinaiticus (~350 AD)Codex Sinaiticus, copied around AD 330–360, is the oldest surviving complete New Testament and the oldest Christian Bible bound in a single volume. Its roughly 400 surviving…
Voices
15 results- VoiceCommodianCommodian wrote Christian poetry in Latin for people who were never going to read a theologian. Two works survive. The *Instructions* is a set of eighty short poems, each one…
- VoiceJohn Calvin# John Calvin (1509–1564) French-born Reformer, theologian, and exegete. Primary systematic-theology voice of the Reformed tradition; his *Institutes of the Christian Religion*…
- VoiceFrancis ChanFrancis Chan is a pastor, author, and speaker known for his passionate call to radical discipleship and authentic Christian living. His book "Crazy Love" became a bestseller…
- VoiceJane HamonJane Hamon is an American Charismatic apostolic-prophetic teacher, author, and senior leader (with her husband Tom Hamon) of Vision Church @ Christian International (Santa Rosa…
- VoiceChuck MisslerDr. Charles Wendell "Chuck" Missler (May 28, 1934 – May 1, 2018) was an American Christian Bible teacher, businessman, author, and former US Naval Academy graduate (1956) and…
Doorways
Study a word
G5546Χριστιανός Christianós — a Christian, i.e. follower of ChristG4609Σίλας Sílas — Silas, a ChristianG4736Στέφανος Stéphanos — Stephanus, a ChristianG3138Μάρκος Márkos — Marcus, a ChristianG571ἄπιστος ápistos — (actively) disbelieving,
i.e. without Christian faith (specially, a heathen)G1050Γάϊος Gáïos — Gaius (i.e. Caius), a Christian