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Keturah-in-the-Bible

Keturah was the wife Abraham married after Sarah died, and she bore him six sons. Scripture calls her his wife in Genesis 25 but his concubine in 1 Chronicles 1, and her sons were sent east with gifts while Isaac received everything.

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Keilah-in-the-Bible

Keilah is a fortified town in the Judean lowlands where David won a battle, then had to decide whether to trust the people he had saved. 1 Samuel 23:1-13 records both the rescue and the divine warning that sent him away.

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Kay-Arthur

Paul's teaching on head coverings in 1 Corinthians 11:2-16 weaves together creation order, cultural shame, and worship practice. This study walks through the passage carefully, distinguishing what it establishes from what it leaves open.

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Kebra-Nagast

The Kebra Nagast is a medieval Ethiopian national epic, not part of the Bible. John 5:39-47 tells us where life and testimony about Jesus are actually found.

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Karl-Barth

Karl Barth built his entire theology around John 1:14, the confession that the Word became flesh. This study explains what that verse says, how Barth read it, and where his reading needs correction.

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Kadesh-Barnea

Kadesh-Barnea was the edge of the promised land and the place where Israel's unbelief turned a short journey into forty years. Numbers 13-14 records what they saw, what they feared, and what God said about it.

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KJV-vs-NLT

The KJV and NLT differ in language and translation philosophy, not in the authority of Scripture. Second Timothy 3:16-17 directs us to what every faithful translation must preserve: God-breathed truth that equips the reader.

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KJV-only

Scripture is God-breathed and profitable, but nothing in 2 Timothy 3:16-17 requires one particular English translation. The KJV-only claim rests on arguments the passage itself does not make, and it divides believers over a question the Bible leaves open.

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Justus-in-the-Bible

Justus is a name attached to three different believers in the New Testament, and the most striking is Joseph Barsabbas in Acts 1. He was a candidate for the apostolic office and was not chosen.

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Jungian-analytic-psychology

Jungian analytic psychology can illuminate dreams, symbols, and the divided self, but Genesis 1:26-27 grounds human worth in God's image, not in archetypes. Scripture affirms our created dignity while judging the heart and calling for renewed minds.

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Julius-Caesar

Jesus answered a trap about Roman taxes with a coin and a sentence that still orders the Christian life. The image on the denarius decides the argument, and God's claim on you is total.

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Julius-Africanus

Julius Africanus was a third-century Christian writer whose chronological work shaped how the early church dated the birth of Jesus. His surviving fragments help us understand why Christmas falls on December 25 and how the wise men fit the story.

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Judgment-of-Solomon

Two women, one living child, and a king's strange test. 1 Kings 3:16-28 shows how Solomon's wisdom worked and why the people saw the hand of God in his verdict.

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Judeo-Christian-ethic

Jesus ties the whole law to two commands: love God with everything you are, and love your neighbor as yourself. That is the ground of any Judeo-Christian ethic, and it is more demanding than rule-keeping, not less.

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Judas-saved

Matthew 26:24 contains one of the hardest sentences Jesus ever spoke about a human being. Examining what Scripture does and does not say about Judas Iscariot helps us answer whether he was saved.

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Judas-die

Matthew 27:3-10 records Judas returning the thirty pieces of silver and dying by hanging. He felt remorse, but his end shows what grief over consequences is not the same as repentance.

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Judaizers

The Judaizers were teachers who insisted Gentile believers must be circumcised and keep the law of Moses to be saved. Acts 15 records how the apostles answered them from Scripture and from God's own work among the Gentiles.

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Jubilee-2017

Leviticus 25:8-13 commanded Israel to sound a trumpet every fiftieth year and release what had been lost. The Jubilee was rooted in God's ownership of the land and his care for the poor.

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Journey-to-the-cross-Sunday-6

Mark 10:32-34 captures the moment Jesus leads His disciples toward Jerusalem, teaching them plainly about His coming suffering, death, and resurrection. The disciples are amazed and afraid, but Jesus keeps walking ahead.

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Journey-to-the-cross-Sunday-3

Mark 8:31-38 marks the turning point where Jesus plainly predicts his suffering, death, and resurrection, then calls his disciples to follow the same path of self-denial. This study walks through the passage verse by verse and considers what taking up your cross actually asks of you.

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