The Day-Age Theory holds that the six days of Genesis 1 are long ages rather than 24-hour days. This study examines the Hebrew word yom, the fourth commandment, and the strengths and weaknesses of the view.

The Bible does not name David's mother or quote her words. What Scripture does give is a family line, a household in Bethlehem, and a prayer for mercy that faithful readers have long connected to her.

David had Saul trapped in a cave and chose not to kill him. His restraint shows what it looks like to trust God's timing instead of forcing your own.

God refused David's offer to build a temple and instead promised him an everlasting dynasty. The Davidic covenant shapes the rest of Scripture and finds its fulfillment in Christ.

Eliab's anger against David is the sharpest family conflict in the Goliath account. The passage shows how family rejection and God's earlier anointing sit side by side.

Michal watched David dance before Yahweh and despised him in her heart, and the text ties that contempt to her childlessness. What 2 Samuel 6:16-23 does and does not establish is worth reading slowly.

Jonathan's soul was knit to David's, and he loved him as his own soul. Their covenant shows loyal, costly, God-fearing love that David grieved publicly for years later.

David and Goliath is often retold as a lesson in courage or self-belief. But 1 Samuel 17 is first about Yahweh of Armies, who saves not by sword or spear but through an unlikely deliverer.

Abishag the Shunammite was brought to serve the aging King David, yet he had no intimate relations with her. The passage sets the stage for the succession struggle that follows, not a lesson on marriage or healing.

Acts 1:8 gives the church its marching orders: Spirit-empowered witness from Jerusalem to the uttermost parts of the earth. David Livingstone obeyed that call in Africa, and his life still teaches us what costly obedience looks like.

David Hume argued that reason cannot establish religious truth and that miracles are unbelievable. Paul's speech in Acts 17:22-31 answers both claims by pointing to the God who is not far from any of us.

David Brainerd was a missionary to Native Americans who died at twenty-nine after years of illness and hardship. His story is a case study in what Paul describes in 2 Corinthians 11:23-28: a life spent, not preserved.

Second Samuel 12 records Nathan's confrontation, David's repentance, and the death of Bathsheba's child. It shows both the seriousness of sin and the mercy of God, and points forward to Solomon and to Christ.

Daniel was thrown into a den of lions for praying to his God, and God sent his angel to shut the lions' mouths. The passage is honest about deliverance and honest about the threat that preceded it.

Daniel 7 records a night vision of four beasts rising from the sea, a heavenly court where the Ancient of Days sits in judgment, and dominion given to one like a son of man. It is the chapter where symbolic beasts and an everlasting kingdom meet.

Daniel was likely made a eunuch when Babylon took him from Judah, yet he served God faithfully in the king's court. His story shows that faithfulness does not require perfect circumstances.

Daniel was a young exile who resolved in his heart not to defile himself with the king's food and wine, and God gave him favor with his captors. His steady integrity and skill in interpreting dreams made him a trusted servant of pagan kings.

Damaris appears once in Scripture, named in Acts 17:34 among the small group who believed Paul's message at the Areopagus in Athens. Scripture tells us her name and that she believed, and it tells us nothing else about her.

The Dalai Lama is a beloved Buddhist monk and teacher, not a Christian figure. Colossians 1:15-20 answers the important questions his influence raises by presenting Jesus Christ as the image of God, creator of all things, and head of the church.

The Da Vinci Code is a novel, not a history of Christianity. John 1:14-18 and the apostolic witness show what the New Testament actually claims about Jesus, and how to tell the difference between a thriller and a truth claim.