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- Procession of the Spirit
Procession names the Spirit's eternal relation of origin from the Father. Orthodox theology distinguishes this from the Spirit's temporal sending through the Son. - Processional Aisle
The aisle allows movement, including liturgical processions and the approach to Communion. The pattern depends on the building. - Projection Screens
Screens in this contemporary example can display song words. Assemblies of God's Influence magazine describes projected lyrics in contemporary worship; the number, design, and position of these screens are local choices. - Projection Screens
One wide central screen and two side screens represent tools for song words, Scripture, and video. Life.Church provides presentation resources and maintains audio, lighting, and video support for its campuses. - Prophetic hope after judgment
Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Isaiah pair judgment with images of renewed covenant, a new heart, and comfort for the displaced. These passages arose in distinct literary and historical settings. Christians reread them in… - Prophetic worship and justice
Israel's prophets criticize worship joined to oppression, corrupt judgment, or neglect of vulnerable people. Isaiah, Amos, and Micah speak in different historical settings and literary forms. Their shared moral… - Prophets
Narrative prophets and the named prophetic books call rulers and communities to covenant fidelity, justice, repentance, and hope. - Proverbs
Proverbs brings instruction, poetic speeches about wisdom, short sayings, and named collections into a guide for practiced judgment. Its observations about normal consequences are not mechanical guarantees that every… - Providence and sustaining creation
God continues to uphold and care for creation. Christian traditions differ in how they describe divine governance, creaturely freedom, and secondary causes. - Psalm 151
Psalm 151 presents David's smallness, anointing, music, and victory over the Philistine in a compact first-person poem. Its Greek superscription places it outside the numbered collection of 150 psalms. - Psalms
Psalms gathers lament, praise, thanksgiving, royal prayer, wisdom, and pilgrimage songs. Its many voices teach readers to bring protest and trust to God; the collection's five-book shape and recurring praise do not… - Psalms 103, 148, and the Song of the Three Young Men
These hymns summon angels, heavens, waters, and created things to praise the Lord. They do not ask a departed human saint to carry a petition. The Song of the Three Young Men appears in the Greek additions to Daniel;… - Psalms in Israel's worship
The Psalter preserves royal, communal, lament, and praise traditions; individual psalms and the final collection do not share a single date. - Pulpit
A side pulpit provides the preaching place while keeping the central altar visible. Its side position is an illustrative choice. - Pulpit
The side pulpit serves proclamation in this traditional example. It shares the front area with the altar and font. - Pulpit
The prominent central pulpit makes preaching the visual focus of this example. Reformed church plans can also place the pulpit to one side. - Pulpit
The pulpit is a visible place from which the sermon is preached. - Pulpit
The central pulpit is the preaching place in this model. Scripture provides the basis for teaching and exhortation in the worship of the gathered church. - Pulpit
The pulpit is the place for preaching, shown prominently in this model. Its central or side position and its form vary among churches. - Quadratus addresses an apology to Hadrian
Eusebius preserves a short fragment of Quadratus's defense of Christianity addressed to Hadrian. It appeals to the continuing memory of people healed by Jesus. - Qualifications and transmission of teaching
The Pastoral Epistles connect appointment, tested character, guarding the deposit, and teaching faithful people who can teach others. Christians differ on how directly these letters establish later episcopal succession. - Quartodeciman Pascha controversy
Regional churches dispute the date for celebrating Pascha; the episode shows both diversity and attempts at conciliar resolution. - Queen of Sheba
Visiting ruler who tests Solomon's wisdom. - Quinisext / Council in Trullo
Trullo supplies disciplinary canons associated in Eastern reception with the fifth and sixth ecumenical councils. - Qur'an, Recitation, and Text
Recitation, forgetting, variants, abrogation, collection, interpretation, and textual-preservation claims. - Qur’an Burning and Preservation
The central question is how destroying the competing manuscript evidence establishes that the Qur’an is better preserved than the Bible. - Rabban Sauma encounters the churches of western Europe
A monk from the Church of the East travels as an envoy of the Ilkhan Arghun. His account includes Christian shrines, conversations with Latin clergy, and encounters with European rulers. - Rachel
Jacob's wife and mother of Joseph and Benjamin. - Rachel mourns her children
Matthew brings Jeremiah's ancestral lament into the mourning for Bethlehem's boys aged two and under killed by Herod. - Rahab
Woman in Jericho who shelters Israel's scouts. - Raphael is consecrated bishop in Brooklyn
Raphael Hawaweeny becomes the first Orthodox bishop consecrated on American soil, with pastoral responsibility for Arabic-speaking communities. - Read the prohibition and the permission
Read the whole biblical pattern: idols are forbidden, cherubim are commanded, and a once-legitimate bronze serpent can become an idol. - Rear Balcony
A raised rear balcony adds seating to this illustrative auditorium. A balcony is a building option, not a defining feature of a megachurch; Life.Church publishes campus plans that vary in size, shape, and scale. - Rebekah
Isaac's wife and mother of Esau and Jacob. - Rehoboam
Solomon's son under whom the kingdom divides. - Restoration of icons in Constantinople
A synod in Constantinople restores icons after renewed iconoclasm; Orthodox churches commemorate this as the Triumph of Orthodoxy on the first Sunday of Lent. - Resurrection of Christ and the dead
The Gospels narrate an empty tomb and appearances in different ways. Paul argues that Christ's rising and believers' future resurrection belong together, while distinguishing transformed life from a simple return to… - Return from Egypt and life in Nazareth
The family returns to Israel and settles in Nazareth after warnings given to Joseph. - Returnees restore the altar before the Temple
Ezra presents the rebuilding of the altar and renewed offerings before the Temple's foundation is completed. Worship resumes amid insecurity. - Reuben
Jacob's first son and ancestor of a tribe.