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Ecotheology
[Doctrine & Theology]Ecotheology is a field of theology that reflects on the relationship among God, humanity, and nature and addresses the church's responsibility in the face of the environmental crisis. It is also called environmental theology.
Positive Confession
[Doctrine & Theology]Positive confession is the teaching that when believers repeatedly affirm and declare God's promises aloud, those words come to pass in reality. It is chiefly associated with the Word of Faith movement.
Worship Music
[Doctrine & Theology]Worship music is music sung or played in Christian worship to praise God, respond to his Word, and enable the congregation to confess its faith together. It includes hymns, gospel songs, choir anthems, and instrumental music.
Psalm 65
[Bible]Psalm 65 is a thirteen-verse psalm of praise and thanksgiving that extols God, who hears prayer in Zion and forgives sin; the Creator, who rules the mountains, the seas, and all peoples; and the God who sends rain upon the earth and grants an abundant harvest.
Psalm 69
[Bible]Psalm 69 is a lament in which the psalmist cries out to God for deliverance from suffering, as though sinking in deep waters and mire. It moves through imprecations against his enemies to a vow of praise, and the New Testament frequently cites it when speaking of the sufferings of Christ.
Psalm 111
[Bible]Psalm 111 is a ten-verse hymn of praise that gives thanks to God while remembering His works and His covenant. It is an acrostic poem arranged according to the order of the Hebrew alphabet, and it closes with the confession that "the fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom."
Psalm 85
[Bible]Psalm 85 is a psalm of the sons of Korah that recalls God's past grace in bringing back the captives, pleads with Him to revive His people again, and portrays a restoration in which mercy and truth, righteousness and peace meet together.
Psalm 89
[Bible]Psalm 89 is a fifty-two-verse poem that praises the everlasting nature of God's covenant with David. Confronted with the collapse of the dynasty, it then laments and asks where that promise has gone. Its final verse is a doxology that closes Book III of the Psalms.
Psalm 109
[Bible]Psalm 109 is a psalm in which a person accused without cause pleads with God not to remain silent, asking for judgment on his enemy and for his own deliverance. It is a classic example of the imprecatory psalms, and the Book of Acts applies verse 8 to Judas Iscariot.
Psalm 135
[Bible]Psalm 135 is a hymn of praise that summons those who serve God to praise him. It celebrates the LORD's power as revealed in creation, the Exodus, and the conquest of Canaan, and contrasts him with idols that can neither speak nor see.
Joy
[Bible]Joy is a key biblical term for the gladness that arises from a relationship with God and from salvation. It appears throughout Scripture, from the feasts and worship of the Old Testament to the gospel and the fruit of the Spirit in the New Testament.
Idol
[Bible]An idol is an image of a deity made to be worshiped in place of God or to represent God, or any object treated in that way. Scripture forbids making and worshiping idols, beginning with the Ten Commandments.
Offering
[Bible]An offering is a biblical term for something brought and presented to God, or for a gift sent to another person as a token of respect and goodwill. The concept extends from the sacrificial laws of the Old Testament to the New Testament understanding of devotion.
Seven Seals
[Bible]The seven seals are the seals that close the scroll held in the hand of God in Revelation 5–8. As the slain Lamb opens them one by one, war, famine, death, martyrdom, and cosmic upheaval follow in succession.
Wealth in the Bible
[Bible]In the Bible, the rich are people who possess great wealth. The Old Testament often portrays wealth as a blessing from God while condemning its abuse, and the New Testament repeatedly warns against a heart that trusts in riches.
Ecclesiastes 5
[Bible]Ecclesiastes 5 opens with counsel to guard one's words in the house of God and to keep one's vows, goes on to speak of the vanity of loving wealth, and closes with the conclusion that enjoying the portion God gives is a gift.
2 John 1:6
[Bible Verses]Second John 1:6 states that love consists in walking according to God's commandments, and that the commandment is to walk in love, as the readers have heard from the beginning. The verse is frequently cited for defining love and obedience in terms of each other.
Isaiah 29
[Bible]Isaiah 29 prophesies that Jerusalem, called "Ariel," will be besieged and then delivered. It rebukes a people who honor God only with their lips and promises a day of restoration when the deaf will hear and the blind will see.
Isaiah 46
[Bible]Isaiah 46 contrasts Bel and Nebo, the gods of Babylon, which become burdens loaded onto beasts and hauled away, with the God who carries His people from birth until their hair turns gray.
Isaiah 48
[Bible]Isaiah 48 rebukes the stubbornness of Israel, God's people in name only, while declaring that God, for His own name's sake, will not destroy them but will deliver them from Babylon.