Christ's ambassadors are called to carry an atmosphere of reconciliation, not condemnation. This study from 2 Corinthians 5:17-21 explores how that posture shapes faith for miracles.

The Great Commission does not send isolated individuals. Christ sends his disciples together, and the earliest church continued in the apostles' teaching, fellowship, the breaking of bread, and prayer.

Chorazin was a Galilean town near Capernaum where Jesus did many mighty works, yet its people did not repent. Jesus named it in a solemn woe, making it a warning about privilege without repentance.

Chloe appears only once in Scripture, in 1 Corinthians 1:11, when her household reports the divisions in Corinth to Paul. Her brief mention opens a window into how the early church functioned and why unity mattered so much to the apostle.

Children's crusades are large evangelistic events aimed at children. Matthew 19:13-15 shows Jesus welcoming little ones, but it does not command a method. Here is what the passage establishes and what it leaves open.

Chick tracts are short evangelistic comic books, often left in public places as silent witnesses. John 3:16-18 locates salvation not in the method but in God's love, his Son, and the faith of the reader.

The Chi-Rho is an early Christian monogram formed from the first two letters of the Greek word Christos. Its meaning rests not on the symbol itself but on the exalted Christ of Colossians 1:15-20, the image of the invisible God and head of the church.

Zephaniah 1:4-6 announces that God will cut off the remnant of Baal from Jerusalem, including the name of the idolatrous and pagan priests. The chemarim were those priests, and the prophets treat their ministry as a deadly counterfeit of true worship.

Charles Ryrie was a dispensational theologian best known for the Ryrie Study Bible and for insisting that Scripture study exists to lead us to Christ. John 5:39-40 makes the point plainly: the Scriptures testify about Jesus, and life is found in him, not in the study itself.

Charles Parham read Acts 2:1-4 as the template for Spirit baptism evidenced by tongues. This study weighs that claim against the wider witness of Acts and 1 Corinthians, showing what the text establishes and what it leaves open.

Charles Hodge (1797-1878) spent most of his life teaching at Princeton and wrote a Systematic Theology that treated the Bible as God's own speech. His conviction rested on 2 Timothy 3:16-17, where Paul calls every Scripture God-breathed and profitable for teaching, reproof, correction, and instruction in righteousness. Hodge's method joined careful exegesis to reverence.

Cenchrea was the eastern harbor of Corinth, and Romans 16:1-2 identifies Phoebe as a servant of the assembly there. Her story shows how the gospel reached a working port city and what Paul asked the Roman church to do for her.

The Celtic cross is a cross with a ring around the intersection of its arms. Its distinctive shape is ancient, but its meaning for Christians must be measured by the apostolic message of Christ crucified.

Celtic Christianity names the faith that took root in Ireland, Scotland, and Wales in the early medieval period. Colossians 2:8-10 gives the standard by which every tradition must be weighed: is it after Christ, or after the elements of the world?

Jesus did not condemn all tradition, only tradition that sets aside God's command. The passage tests every inherited teaching by whether it honors or voids Scripture.

Jesus says in John 6:53-58 that unless we eat his flesh and drink his blood we have no life in ourselves. Faithful Christians have read that sentence in very different ways for two thousand years, and the difference still shapes how Catholics and Protestants approach the Lord's Supper.

The word catholic means universal, and the New Testament uses that idea of the whole church. But Matthew 16:18-19 must be read for what it says and does not say.

Exodus 20:1-6 forbids bowing to carved images and serving them, and it grounds that command in God's jealousy. Whether every use of images in worship is idolatry is where faithful Christians have historically differed.

Mark 5:1-20 records Jesus freeing a man tormented by many demons. It shows his absolute authority over evil spirits and the restored calling of the delivered man. It does not prescribe a ritual, a formula, or a guaranteed outcome for every case of spiritual affliction.

Paul grounds all teaching, reproof, and correction in God-breathed Scripture. This study asks how a catechism should be weighed by that standard, and where faithful Christians differ.