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- Kingdom teaching & parables
Jesus teaches through parables, signs, scriptural arguments, and sayings about his identity and the kingdom. - Kings & royal households
Saul, David, Solomon, the divided kingdoms, royal households, reforms, coups, and Jerusalem's fall form the monarchy cluster. - Lachish falls and its people are deported
Assyrian reliefs depict siege engines, defenders, and people leaving Lachish for exile. They provide a local view of the devastation accompanying the campaign against Judah. - Lambeth Quadrilateral
The Lambeth Conference adopted a four-part framework for pursuing Christian unity: Scripture, the ancient creeds, Baptism and the Lord's Supper, and the historic episcopate adapted to local settings. - Lament as faithful prayer
The Psalms preserve complaint, protest, petition, remembrance, and praise. Psalm 13 moves from perceived abandonment to trust without explaining away the crisis. Psalm 88 ends in darkness. Jesus' cry in Mark 15 takes… - Lament over Jerusalem
Lamentations gives liturgical voice to grief, confession, and hope after the city's devastation. - Lamentations
Lamentations gives poetic voice to Jerusalem's devastation through grief, accusation, confession, and fragile hope. Its ordered acrostic forms contain suffering without making the suffering tidy or resolving the… - Lateran Synod against monothelitism
The synod rejects monothelite teaching before the sixth ecumenical council's later definition. - Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization
Evangelical leaders from many nations meet in Lausanne and issue a covenant linking evangelism and Christian social responsibility. - Leah
Jacob's wife and mother of several tribal ancestors. - Lectern
The lectern holds a Bible or readings for public proclamation. In some churches one stand serves both reading and preaching. - Leo sends the Tome to Flavian
Leo writes to Flavian about Christ's divinity and humanity in response to the Eutychian controversy. The letter later becomes a central document considered at Chalcedon. - Leonides's execution reshapes Origen's household
Eusebius recounts the execution of Origen's father Leonides and the confiscation of family property. The teenage Origen must then support a household while continuing his studies. - Let all God’s angels worship him
Hebrews commands angelic worship of the Son using wording attested in the Greek form of Deuteronomy 32:43; Psalm 97:7 is a related proposed source. - Levi
Son of Jacob and Leah and ancestor of the priestly tribe. - Leviticus
Leviticus asks how a community lives near a holy God. Sacrifices, priesthood, purity, atonement, economic obligations, and neighbor-love belong to one account of worship and ordinary life. - Life with Christ and final judgment
The Augsburg Confession XVII, Westminster Confession XXXIII, and Southern Baptist Faith and Message X distinguish eternal life from everlasting punishment. They affirm Christ's return, resurrection, and judgment.… - Light rises in Galilee
Matthew identifies Jesus' Galilean ministry with Isaiah's light for people in darkness. - Linus of Rome
Irenaeus names Linus as receiving the episcopate of the Roman church from the apostles. - Living Protestant Faith
Christian learning continues in a local church through Scripture, worship, prayer, baptism and the Lord's Supper, mutual care, and service. Protestant communities differ in membership processes, pastoral oversight,… - Looking upon the pierced one
John connects the pierced side of Jesus with Zechariah's mourning over the pierced one. - Lot
Abraham's nephew in the Sodom narratives. - Luke
Luke opens by explaining that earlier accounts and eyewitness traditions stand behind his orderly narrative. The Gospel attends to prayer, the Spirit, meals, wealth, mercy, and people at social margins. Its second… - Luke 20: God is God of the living
Jesus says all are alive to God. This bears on life after death, but does not say the departed hear requests or prescribe invocation. - Luther at the Diet of Worms
Luther is summoned before the imperial diet and refuses to retract his writings without conviction from Scripture and reason. Imperial condemnation follows. - Luther's Ninety-Five Theses
Luther's theses about indulgences become a catalyst for reform debates in the Western Church. - Luther's Small Catechism
Luther writes a concise guide to the commandments, creed, Lord's Prayer, baptism, and the Lord's Supper for household and congregational teaching. - Lutheran–Catholic declaration on justification
The Lutheran World Federation and the Catholic Church state a consensus on basic truths of justification while acknowledging remaining differences. The declaration concerns these signatories, not every Protestant church. - Lydia of Thyatira at Philippi
Lydia is a woman from Thyatira who sells purple goods and worships God. At the riverside place of prayer near Philippi, the Lord opens her heart to Paul's message. After the baptism of her household she urges the… - Lying to the Holy Spirit, lying to God
The parallel is explicit within two adjacent verses. Verse 9 also describes the couple as testing the Spirit of the Lord. - Maccabean revolt begins
Resistance to Seleucid policies and Temple profanation begins the revolt narrated in 1–2 Maccabees. - Macedonia: households, work, and a costly welcome
Acts moves from the Macedonian vision to women gathered for prayer, Lydia's opened heart and hospitality, the exploitation of an enslaved girl, the imprisonment of Paul and Silas, and the jailer's household.… - Major Muslim Responses to the Islamic Dilemma
The principal replies challenge different premises rather than offering one answer: Qur'an 3:7 qualifies a maximal clarity claim; the original Torah and Injil may be distinguished from later texts; tahrif may concern… - Malachi
Malachi presents disputes over worship, fidelity, justice, and the apparent prosperity of wrongdoers. Its closing messenger and Elijah expectations become important in the Gospels' presentation of John the Baptist. - Malachi
Prophetic book confronting unfaithfulness in worship. - Malachi: covenant faithfulness
Malachi critiques deficient worship and injustice while anticipating the Lord's coming messenger. - Manasseh
King of Judah condemned for idolatry in Kings. - Manasseh and Judah's religious crisis
The biblical histories present Manasseh's reign as a decisive period of idolatry and later repentance in Chronicles. - Manna and the bread of life
Jesus recalls the wilderness manna and identifies himself as the Father's life-giving bread, surpassing the food that sustained Israel. - Manoah's family and the wonderful name
A visitor announces Samson's birth and ascends in the altar's flame.