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Reading names 3 things on this site
- Reading, a heading of the topical index.A heading of Nave's Topical Bible (1896): every passage it gathers, quoted.
- Reading Rabbinic Sources as a Christian, MannaFest, a featured study.A featured study on this subject, with its Scripture, its sources and its figures.
- Reading Plans: a pace through the whole Book, a featured study.Five ways through Scripture: the whole Bible in a year, the events in order, the New Testament in 90 days, four streams a day, and the promise traced in 30. No streaks, no guilt: your next day waits…
Featured studies
14 results- StudyReading Rabbinic Sources as a Christian, MannaFestA featured study on this subject, with its Scripture, its sources and its figures.
- StudyThe Reading Room: The Bible itselfWho decided what goes in it, does it contradict itself, and what is faith actually supposed to be?
- StudyReading Plans: a pace through the whole BookFive ways through Scripture: the whole Bible in a year, the events in order, the New Testament in 90 days, four streams a day, and the promise traced in 30. No streaks, no guilt: your next day waits…
- StudyTwo Traditions, One SongAllegorical and natural, side by side against the same verses: the two-thousand-year argument over what the Song of Songs is really about, presented at full strength and attributed, not adjudicated.
- StudyThe Fivefold MinistryEphesians 4:11-13 as the charter (apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, teachers) the one-office-or-two grammar question, and the contested center presented at full strength: continuing…
Verses
139 results- VerseActs 8:28and on his return was sitting in his chariot reading Isaiah the prophet.
- VerseActs 8:30So Philip ran up and heard the man reading Isaiah the prophet. “Do you understand what you are reading?” Philip asked.
- VerseActs 15:31When the people read it, they rejoiced at its encouraging message.
- VerseEphesians 3:4In reading this, then, you will be able to understand my insight into the mystery of Christ,
- VerseJeremiah 29:29(Zephaniah the priest, however, had read this letter to Jeremiah the prophet.)
Words (Strong's)
2 resultsThemes
12 results- ThemeFaith**Faith across the canon is less a feeling than a transaction: a person trusts what God has said and acts on it before the outcome is visible.** The Old Testament rarely uses…
- ThemeGraceGrace is God's unearned favor. The Hebrew word for it is *chen* — a gift given because the giver is gracious, not because the receiver has earned it — and it is *chen* that the…
- ThemeLoveThe Old Testament's word for it is *chesed* — not a feeling but a covenant posture: steadfast, loyal, obligated love that keeps showing up whether or not it is deserved. God's…
- ThemeWorshipScripture's worship vocabulary carries two roots held together: *shachah* (to bow down, prostrate) and *abad* (to serve, to labor for). *Shachah* is first rendered "worship" at…
- ThemeForgivenessForgiveness in Scripture is not a sentiment but a transaction: a debt is real, and someone absorbs it. The Old Testament establishes this before it ever preaches it. The…
Topics
2 resultsApologetics
2 results- ApologeticsWalls of Jericho StratigraphyAt Tell es-Sultan the mudbrick city wall collapsed outward into a climbable ramp at the foot of its stone revetment, the city burned under three feet of debris, and the storage…
- ApologeticsDaniel's 70 Weeks: The Arithmetic and the DebateDaniel 9:24-27 gives 490 years from a command to restore Jerusalem to Messiah the Prince. This entry presents Anderson's and Hoehner's calculations and fully steelmans the…
Voices
5 results- VoiceAnne AskewAnne Askew was a Lincolnshire gentlewoman, married against her will to a Catholic neighbor and turned out of the house when she would not stop reading the English Bible. She…
- VoiceNicholas RidleyNicholas Ridley was the scholar of the three Oxford martyrs. Reading an old treatise by a ninth-century monk, he came to believe that Christ is received in the Lord's Supper by…
- VoiceWilliam WilberforceWilliam Wilberforce was rich, charming, and already in Parliament at twenty-one when a reading trip in 1785 changed him. He assumed his new faith meant leaving public life…
- VoiceFrances Ridley HavergalFrances Ridley Havergal was the daughter of an English clergyman who composed hymn tunes, lost her mother at eleven, and grew up reading Hebrew and Greek and memorizing whole…
- 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…