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- Judges
Judges portrays cycles of oppression and rescue that develop into escalating moral and social breakdown. Its deliverers are not uniformly exemplary, and its closing stories expose severe violence within Israel. - Judges & early leaders
Judges, deliverers, women in the judge narratives, Ruth's family, and Samuel show Israel before and during the transition to monarchy. - Judgment, Angels, Satan, and the Unseen
Paradise, Hell, judgment, angels, Satan, devils, death, graves, and other unseen realities. - Judith
Judith portrays a threatened community and a widow whose prayer, courage, and strategy reverse an apparently overwhelming enemy's power. The story's conspicuous historical combinations call for literary attention… - Judith
Widow who saves her people in a book with varied canonical reception. - Justin Martyr
Second-century Christian apologist whose First Apology defends Christians before Roman authorities and describes baptism, Sunday assembly, Scripture reading, and the Eucharist. - Justin Martyr describes worship
Justin's First Apology describes baptism, Sunday assembly, Scripture readings, prayers, and the Eucharist to a Roman audience. - Kingdom divides: Israel and Judah
Following Solomon, the northern kingdom of Israel and southern kingdom of Judah develop separate royal and worship histories. - 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. - Kollyvades renewal and frequent Communion
The Kollyvades defended inherited worship practices while also urging more frequent, prepared reception of the Eucharist and renewed attention to ascetical texts. - Kyiv
Kyiv was a principal center of Christian Rus' following Vladimir's baptism and the Christianization traditionally dated to 988. Its Saint Sophia Cathedral and Monastery of the Caves preserve the history of Byzantine… - 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. - 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. - Law and Moral-Coherence Arguments
Three dossiers force disputed legal conclusions to account for their canonical chronology, conflicting reception, and moral consequences. - Law, Worship, and Daily Practice
Prayer, fasting, purity, food, clothing, marriage law, punishment, and other practical rulings. - Leah
Jacob's wife and mother of several tribal ancestors. - Learn to read an icon
Look at the person, inscription, gesture, and biblical scene. Traditional iconography teaches through composition; it need not function like a modern photograph. - Lectern
The lectern holds the book used for public Scripture reading in this arrangement. - Lectern
This model shows a separate Scripture reading stand. ELCA guidance notes that one place for reading and preaching can better express their unity. - Lectern
The lectern holds the book used for public Scripture reading in this arrangement. - 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. - Light can be welcomed or resisted
The passage concerns our response to Christ and the exposure of our deeds—not an arbitrary preference for one color or feeling. - 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 Catholic Faith
Catholic formation continues through Sunday worship, Scripture, prayer, the sacraments, moral conversion, works of mercy, and belonging to a parish community. A sustainable pattern grows with a person's circumstances… - Living Orthodoxy
The goal of catechesis is not merely correct answers but a durable life of repentance, prayer, worship, sacramental communion, Scripture, mercy, fasting, stewardship, and love within the local Church. Reception is a… - 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. - 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. - Lot
Abraham's nephew in the Sodom narratives.