Adoption:

Choosing or taking something as your own. Becoming God the Father's adopted child and Jesus' brother.

To place, signifies the place and condition of a son given to one to whom it does not naturally belong.

Atonement

Refers to God's activity by means of Jesus' substitutionary death on the cross which reconciles us to Himself. Figuratively to expiate or condone, to placate or cancel. To make an atonement.

Propitiation

To conciliate, to atone for. It was when God's righteous wrath was appeased by Christ's death for our sin.

Reconciliation

Restoration to favor, to reconcile. When man is brought from being an enemy of God to friendship with God.

Expiation

To cover or cleanse sin.

Redemption

To buy or redeem. Redemption is purchasing someone's freedom.

Regeneration / New Birth

Regeneration is the work of God's Spirit in which He changes the spiritual condition of a person, bringing him from death to life.

Faith

Firm persuasion, a conviction based upon hearing. Faith is the gift of God that enables us to believe what He says, to trust Him with our lives, and to live upon His Word.

Repentance

Change of mind. Repentance is the gift of God that enables the sinner to turn from sin and self in order to turn to God.

Imputation

To reckon, take into account, to put down to a person's account. It means to place one person's sin or righteousness upon another's account.

Justification

The act of pronouncing righteous. Justification is a legal action by which God declares the believer to be freed from the penalty of his sin, and his guilt and made right before God's law.

Sanctification

Separation to God. Upon justification the believer is sanctified unto God (positionally) and then continuously set apart in heart and life for holiness (practically).

Consecration

To set apart, to dedicate.

Perseverance

To be steadfast in a thing and give unremitting care to it. Perseverance refers to the fact that the true believer will not fall away from his relationship to God. He will endure until the end.

Glorification

Glorification refers to the completion of all aspects of the believer's salvation upon entering heaven.

Monergism

Is the view that God alone effects our salvation. (See Calvinism)

Synergism

Is the view that God works together with us in some way to effect salvation

Meditate

To muse, to think on, to reflect

Providence

Providence is the sovereign, divine superintendence of all things, guiding them toward their divinely predetermined end in a way that is consistent with their created nature, all to the glory and praise of God.

Apostasy

Abandonment of one's religious faith; to apostatize

Heresy

An opinion or a doctrine at variance with established religious beliefs

False Teacher

A teacher of the bible who intentionally teaches contrary to what the bible teaches