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- Lord's Table
A simple table serves the Lord's Supper. Presbyterian guidance prefers table to altar and describes thanksgiving, remembrance, communion in Christ, and hope of the coming banquet. - Lord's Table
The table leaves room for the minister to preside facing the people. United Methodist guidance prefers Lord's Table or altar-table and encourages the assembly to gather around it. - Lord’s Supper
The Communion service follows foot washing and shares bread and cup; the Manual describes customary quarterly celebration. The service is open to believing Christians; this prepared table is a service setting. - Love-feast Gathering
The Church of the Brethren gathers for a love feast following Jesus’ example of self-giving fellowship. This teaching arrangement brings successive service actions into one study view. - Lovefeast Buns & Coffee
Lititz’s lovefeast shares sweet buns with coffee or chocolate milk during worship. A portable serving station illustrates distribution; lovefeast is not sacramental Communion and menus can differ. - Lucas Cranach the Elder
Painter and printmaker serving Saxon electors. - Lucy Farrow
Revival leader associated with early Pentecostal ministry. - 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 prepares catechisms for everyday instruction
Catechisms answered the need for clearer parish and household teaching. - Luther refuses recantation at Worms
Luther defended his writings before imperial authorities. - Lutheran Church in America
One of the three bodies that joined the 1988 ELCA merger. - Lutheran churches
Justification through grace and faith became a defining Reformation concern. - Lutheran churches in Tanzania merge
Seven churches formed the ELCT from their earlier federation. - Lutheran World Federation
Churches formed a federation at Lund after the Second World War. - Lutherans found the LWF at Lund
The postwar assembly pursued fellowship and solidarity. - Luther’s German New Testament appears
A new vernacular New Testament widened access to Luther’s biblical work. - 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… - 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.… - Magic, Perception, and the Protected-Revelation Boundary
Sahih al-Bukhari reports that magic affected Muhammad until he imagined doing things he had not done. The pressure point is epistemic: the defender must identify from the texts, rather than merely assert, why this… - Major Scottish Presbyterian churches reunite
Reunion reduced earlier divisions without eliminating every separate Scottish church. - Make an explanation someone can check
Choose a turning point or church. State a bounded claim, attach two evidence items with exact locators, and state a limitation. - 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: covenant faithfulness
Malachi critiques deficient worship and injustice while anticipating the Lord's coming messenger. - 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. - Marburg Articles · Article 15
A joint statement can tell us what participants shared and what they could not resolve. Article 15 is evidence for both. - Marburg: agreement and disagreement
In October 1529, reformers met at Marburg. Their signed articles acknowledged both shared beliefs and a remaining disagreement about the Supper. - Marburg: place and jurisdiction
The colloquy took place in the Landgraviate of Hesse within the Holy Roman Empire, in a city now in Germany. - Margaret Fell
Early Quaker organizer and defender of religious freedom. - Marguerite of Navarre
Royal writer and patron receptive to humanist and evangelical renewal. - Marie Dentière
Writer who defended women’s participation in the work of reform. - Martin Bucer
Strasbourg reformer who pursued agreement among divided Christians. - Martin Luther
A Wittenberg theologian whose indulgence dispute developed into a break with Rome. - Martin Luther at Marburg
Luther signed the Marburg Articles alongside Zwingli and eight other reformers. Agreement on many points left a real Eucharistic disagreement. - Martin Niemoeller
Pastor associated with resistance to the German Christian movement. - Martyrdom of Polycarp 17–18
Distinguishes Christ's worship from love for martyrs and describes keeping Polycarp's bones and annual remembrance. - Martyrdom of Polycarp of Smyrna
An early Christian narrative remembers the death of Smyrna's bishop and the community's care for the memory of its martyr. - MARY & THE SAINTS
Mary is honored as ever-Virgin and Theotokos: the one she bore is God the Word incarnate. The 1973 Catholic–Coptic declaration explicitly affirms her intercession. Saints witness to Christ's sanctifying life; their…