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• Great SeaBible

  The Great Sea is a biblical place name for the present-day Mediterranean Sea, which lies west of the land of Canaan. The name appears mainly in passages that describe the western boundary of the Promised Land.

• The Rich Man and LazarusBible

  The Rich Man and Lazarus is a story told by Jesus in Luke 16:19–31. A rich man who lived in luxury and Lazarus, a beggar who lay at his gate, find their situations reversed after death. The story addresses wealth, care for one's neighbor, repentance, and the word of God.

• The Resurrection ChapterBible

  The Resurrection Chapter is a name for 1 Corinthians 15 in the New Testament. In this chapter Paul gives his most extensive treatment of the resurrection of Christ and the bodily resurrection of believers on the last day.

• Trinity SundayFeasts & Seasons

  Trinity Sunday, the Sunday after Pentecost, is a feast of the Western church year commemorating the doctrine of the Trinity, which confesses one God in Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

• Lazarus SaturdayFeasts & Seasons

  Lazarus Saturday is the Saturday immediately before Palm Sunday and commemorates Jesus' raising of the dead Lazarus at Bethany. It is observed chiefly by the Orthodox Church and by churches of the Eastern liturgical tradition.

• Song of Songs 4Bible

  Song of Songs 4 is a love song in which the bridegroom praises the bride's eyes, hair, lips, neck, and other features by comparing them to scenes from nature and to spices, and likens her to a garden enclosed and a fountain sealed. In the final verse the bride invites her beloved into her garden.

• OmerBible

  The omer is an ancient Israelite dry measure for grain mentioned in Exodus 16. It is best known from the account of the manna in the wilderness, which each person was to gather at the rate of one omer per day. The text defines the omer as one-tenth of an ephah.

• EutychesPeople

  Eutyches (c. 380–after 454) was an archimandrite (abbot) in Constantinople. He taught that in Christ the divine and human natures were united into a single nature, and he was condemned at the Council of Chalcedon in 451.

• SermonWorship & Rites

  A sermon is the proclamation of the Word in worship that expounds a biblical text and applies it to present-day life. It is regarded as a central element of the worship service, and in Korean Protestant churches it is commonly referred to simply as "the Word" (malsseum).

• Council of TrentHistory

  The Council of Trent was a council of the Roman Catholic Church held from 1545 to 1563 in Trent (Trento) in northern Italy. In response to the Reformation, it defined Catholic doctrine and reformed the internal life of the Church.

• GallioPeople

  Gallio was the Roman proconsul of the province of Achaia. In Acts 18, when the Jews of Corinth brought charges against Paul, he declined to hear the case, regarding it as a matter of Jewish law.

• City of DavidBible

  The City of David is a phrase used in Luke 2 for Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus, identifying it as the hometown where David was born and raised. In the Old Testament, the same original-language expression refers instead to the stronghold of Zion in Jerusalem.

• Breastplate of JudgmentBible

  The breastplate of judgment was a square ornament worn on the chest, over the ephod, by the high priest of Old Testament Israel. It held twelve precious stones engraved with the names of the twelve tribes, and the Urim and Thummim were placed in it.

• Council of ArlesHistory

  The Council of Arles was a meeting of bishops of the Western church, convened by Emperor Constantine in 314 at Arles in Gaul. It examined the Donatist controversy, upheld Caecilian as bishop of Carthage, and issued regulations concerning baptism, the laying on of hands, and Easter.

• IchabodPeople

  Ichabod is a figure in 1 Samuel, the grandson of the priest Eli and the son of Phinehas. He was born on the day the Philistines captured the ark of the covenant, and his name is explained as meaning "the glory is departed from Israel."

• World Mission Society Church of GodHeresies & Cults

  The World Mission Society Church of God is a religious group that split from an organization founded by Ahn Sahng-hong in Busan in 1964. Its members believe Ahn Sahng-hong to be Christ at His Second Coming and Zahng Gil-jah to be "God the Mother." Major Korean Protestant denominations and ecumenical bodies have designated the group as heretical.

• Church of AntiochHistory

  The church of Antioch was an early church founded in the first century in Antioch, a major city of Syria. It was there that believers were first called "Christians," and it was this church that sent Barnabas and Paul on the mission to the Gentiles.

• Gihon RiverBible

  The Gihon River is the second of the four rivers described in Genesis 2 as flowing out of Eden and parting into four heads. Scripture records that it "compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia" (Cush). Interpreters hold several views on which present-day river it corresponds to.

• PentecostFeasts & Seasons

  Pentecost is a church festival observed on the Sunday that falls on the fiftieth day after Easter. It commemorates the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the disciples of Jesus Christ (Acts 2). It is also called Pentecost Sunday.

• Psalm 119:97–104Bible Verses

  The thirteenth stanza of Psalm 119, in which the psalmist meditates on God's word all day long and confesses that it makes him wiser than his enemies, his teachers, and the aged, and that it is sweeter than honey. The passage is often cited to encourage meditation on Scripture and the practice of quiet time.