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• LentFeasts & Seasons

  Lent is a season of the church year lasting forty days before Easter, excluding Sundays, during which Christians meditate on the sufferings of Jesus Christ and prepare for Easter through repentance and self-denial.

• Million Souls MovementHistory

  The Million Souls Movement was a nationwide evangelistic campaign that Korean Protestants conducted jointly across denominational lines from 1909 to early 1911 under the slogan "A Million Souls for Christ." It is known for the "day offering," in which believers pledged days of their time to evangelism, and for the distribution of Gospel portions.

• Ahab and JezebelPeople

  Ahab was a king of the northern kingdom of Israel in about the ninth century BC, and Jezebel, a native of Sidon, was his queen. The books of Kings record them as the rulers who introduced Baal worship and opposed the prophet Elijah.

• German Peasants' WarHistory

  The German Peasants' War was a large-scale uprising from 1524 to 1525 in the German-speaking regions of the Holy Roman Empire, in which peasants and the urban poor rose up against the burdens imposed by their lords and the church. Although it was closely bound up with the ideas of the Reformation, it was suppressed by the allied armies of the princes.

• 1 Samuel 3Bible

  1 Samuel 3 is the chapter in which the LORD calls the boy Samuel, who is growing up at the tabernacle in Shiloh, four times during the night and announces judgment on the house of Eli. After these events, Samuel becomes known throughout all Israel as a prophet.

• NaziriteBible

  A Nazirite was a person who, having made a special vow, separated himself or herself to the LORD for a set period or for life by abstaining from wine, leaving the hair uncut, and avoiding contact with dead bodies. The regulations appear in Numbers 6.

• Anna AdlischwylerPeople

  Anna Adlischwyler (d. 1564) was a sixteenth-century woman of Zurich, Switzerland. A former nun of the Oetenbach convent, she married the reformer Heinrich Bullinger in 1529 and was afterward remembered as a model for the household of a Reformed pastor.

• Huldrych ZwingliPeople

  Huldrych Zwingli (1484–1531) was a reformer who led the Reformation in Zurich, Switzerland. He is regarded as the starting point of the Reformed tradition, including Presbyterianism, and is known for the "memorial view" of the Lord's Supper, which understands the sacrament as a rite commemorating the death of Christ.

• Kenneth HaginPeople

  Kenneth Hagin (1917–2003) was an American charismatic preacher. He is regarded as a pioneer of the Word of Faith movement, which emphasizes faith and spoken confession, and he founded Rhema Bible Training Center.

• Jun Taek-buPeople

  Jun Taek-bu (1915–2008) was a Korean YMCA leader and a writer on Christian history. He served as general secretary and later as honorary general secretary of the Seoul YMCA. His works include *A History of the Korean YMCA Movement* and *A History of the Development of the Korean Church*, and he was also active in the movement to promote Hangul, the Korean alphabet.

• 1 Chronicles 12Bible

  1 Chronicles 12 records the warriors and troops from each tribe who gathered to David, from the time he was hiding at Ziklag until he was made king over all Israel at Hebron.

• Colonialism and MissionsHistory

  Colonialism and missions refers to the historical relationship in which European overseas expansion and Christian missionary work became intertwined from the fifteenth century onward. The term also covers the criticism and reassessment surrounding that relationship.

• Revival MeetingWorship & Rites

  A revival meeting is a special series of gatherings held over several consecutive days to rekindle faith that has grown stagnant. It is also called a spiritual revival meeting. In Korea, revival meetings developed as an offshoot of Bible study gatherings known as Bible conferences (sagyeonghoe).

• Church RetreatChristian Life

  A church retreat is a gathering in which church members leave their daily routines and stay together for several days to focus on worship, prayer, Bible study, and fellowship. In Korean Protestant churches, retreats are usually held by individual church departments during school vacations.

• SabbaticalOrganization & Polity

  A sabbatical is a period during which a pastor or missionary, after serving for a set length of time, steps away from ministry to rest, study, pursue further training, and recharge. The term is taken from the Old Testament ordinances concerning the sabbatical year.

• Ahn Ei-sookPeople

  Ahn Ei-sook (1908–1997) was a Korean Protestant who was imprisoned for about six years during the Japanese colonial period for refusing Shinto shrine worship. She later served in the United States as the wife of a Baptist pastor and wrote the memoir If I Perish (Jugeumyeon jugeurira).

• Yi Se-jongPeople

  Yi Se-jong (李世鍾) was a Korean lay Christian who, during the Japanese colonial period in Hwasun, South Jeolla Province, read the Bible, gave away his property, and lived a life of asceticism and voluntary poverty. He was known as "Yi Gong" (李空, "Yi the Empty") and is remembered as the teacher of Yi Hyeon-pil.

• Lee Hyun-pilPeople

  Lee Hyun-pil (1913–1964) was a Korean Protestant lay ascetic active during the Japanese colonial period and after Korea's liberation. He founded Donggwangwon, a community devoted to poverty, chastity (celibacy), and labor, and he is known as the "Barefoot Saint."

• Purification after ChildbirthBible

  Purification after childbirth is an Old Testament ordinance under which a woman who had given birth, after completing a prescribed period, brought offerings to the sanctuary to have her ritual purity restored. It is set out in Leviticus 12, and in Luke 2 Mary observes it.

• Ephesians 5:22-25Bible Verses

  A passage that moves from "Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord" to "Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it." It is frequently read at wedding services, and interpretations of what it teaches about the relationship between men and women and about authority in the home differ sharply.