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Early Church - Details of the organization and activities of the Church, from Pentecost to the beginning of Paul's ministry. [JULY 2015]

Ebionites - A Jewish-Christian heretical sect flourishing in the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th cents A.D.  [FEB 2013]

Ecumenical Council - An ecumenical council is a conference of ecclesiastical dignitaries and theological experts convened to discuss and settle matters of Church doctrine and practice in which those entitled to vote are convoked from the whole world (οικυμενει) and which secures the approbation of the whole Church. [NOV 2015]

Edification - the doctrine of growing in the knowledge of Jesus Christ, leading to productivity in the Christian way of life. [JULY 2015]

Edomites - Historical summary of the Edomites. [JULY 2015]

Egypt, Herodotus - Among Herodotus’ descriptions of countries the most fascinating to the modern reader, as it was to the ancient, is his account of the marvels of the land of Egypt. [JULY 2015]

Egypt, History of – a thoroughly researched study by George Rawlinson, from The Seven Great Monarchies of the Ancient Eastern World. [AUG 2014]

Elders - elders (or bishops) are the divinely ordered rulers in the local, visible church.  [DEC 2017]

End - Time Events - A review of all the happenings and activities which accompany the end times

Endurance -  “To stay in a place beyond an expected point of time...to maintain a belief or course of action in the face of opposition, stand one’s ground, hold out, endure.”

Enemies, Witnessing to - Every Christian has a duty to love his enemies and to witness to them. [JULY 2015]

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Enoch – the man who “walked with God.”

Ephesus - overview of the city of the Ephesians. [JULY 2015]

Epicureans - Individually Epicurus and his followers devoted themselves primarily to the pursuit of personal, individual happiness. [JULY 2015]

Eschatology - The doctrine of things to come is extensive indeed. [DEC 2017]

Essence of God - many scripture verses describing all of the characteristics of the personality of God. [JULY 2015]

Essenes - A description of the ascetic religious sect of the Essenes, the forerunner of the monastic orders. [JULY 2015]

Eternal Life - Three stages of everlasting life, "now" and "forever". [JULY 2015]

Eternal Security - An understanding of these concepts is required before there can be stability in our Christian lives. [JULY 2015]

Eternity - We don’t know much in detail about eternity, what it’s like, or what we will be doing there. However, the Bible does have some information from which we can draw some inferences. [JULY 2015]

Eucharist (Lord’s Supper) – The history of the Relationship of the Passover to the Lord’s Supper. [JULY 2015]

Eusebius of Caesarea – one of the most important Nicene and post-Nicene fathers, the “father of church history,” the Christian Herodotus. [OCT 2014]

Evangelism - Evangelism is the act of presenting to the unsaved the evangel or good news of the gospel of God’s saving grace through Christ Jesus. [DEC 2017]

Evangelism-True (Chafer) - Full study of Lewis Sperry Chafer’s work on Evangelism.

Evil, Doctrine of - A thorough study of the doctrines related to Satan's strategy, his attempt to discredit the Lord Jesus Christ during the Church Age. [JULY 2015]

Exhort-Rebuke-Preach - Christians are commanded to “exhort” one another. Sometimes that calls for a comforting ministry, and sometimes it calls for straight talk.  [APR 2015]

Exorcism - Exorcisms are acts of liberating afflicted persons from the influence of demons. [JULY 2015]

Ezra - Ezra returned to Jerusalem with a group of repatriates and others in the seventh year of Artaxerxes. [MAR 2013]