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Kind: Concept
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Oct 31, 2026
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A solemn bond setting the terms between God and his people — strung from Noah and Abraham to Sinai and David, and renewed in the ‘new covenant’ Christians read in Christ.
Pillar: People
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David and Bathsheba’s son — Israel’s wisest and wealthiest king, builder of the first Temple, credited with the wisdom books, and undone by his later turn to idolatry.
Testament: Both
Oct 30, 2026
The four letters YHWH form the personal name of the God of Israel — reconstructed in sound, left unspoken out of reverence, and rendered ‘the LORD’ in most English Bibles.
Oct 29, 2026
Hebrew ruach and Greek pneuma both begin as ‘wind’ or ‘breath,’ then stretch across the breath of life, the soul, unseen persons — and the Holy Spirit the glossary treats apart.
It begins as ancestor, elder, originator — then names God’s covenant bond with Israel, and, in Christian tradition, the first person of the Trinity.
Oct 27, 2026
From Bethlehem’s shepherd boy to Israel’s greatest king — and the dynasty both Judaism and Christianity trace to him.
In Scripture it is mostly an outsider’s word for Israel — and it may come from a root meaning “to pass over.”
Behind the English word “God” stand Elohim, El and theos — and, set apart from them, the personal name the Bible renders “the LORD.”
Oct 26, 2026
Born a Hebrew slave, raised in Pharaoh’s palace — he leads Israel out of Egypt and, in biblical tradition, receives the Law at Sinai.
Testament: New
Oct 25, 2026
Saul of Tarsus persecuted the early church, then carried its message across the Roman Empire and wrote much of the New Testament.
Oct 21, 2026
In the Hebrew Bible “the LORD” is the sacred name YHWH; in the New Testament the same word becomes the confession “Jesus is Lord.”
The central figure of the New Testament — his life, the meaning of his name, and the titles the church gives him.
Oct 20, 2026
The holy city from Melchizedek to the New Jerusalem — capital, Temple city, and the setting of Jesus’ final week.
Oct 19, 2026
From the kings of Canaan to the Davidic throne and the kingdom of God.
Bible Topic Study
6 min read
Which parent does Scripture cast as the bringer of comfort and refuge — and does it choose at all?
7 min read
“Spare the rod” meets “do not provoke” — where Scripture presses in two directions
8 min read
Where Scripture is marshalled on each side — and where the two cases collide
5 min read
The livestream is cancelled; but for Christ followers, questions remain
Oct 18, 2026
The Greek for “Messiah” — the title Israel waited for, which the New Testament confesses is fulfilled in Jesus.
Sep 20, 2026
The word Jesus used for final judgment was a real valley outside Jerusalem — its history, and how the church has read it
The Greek word the New Testament uses for the realm of the dead — the counterpart to Sheol, and not the final hell
Glossary
What the Hebrew Bible means by "the grave" — and how it differs from Hades and Gehenna
