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• Lucius of CyrenePeople

  Lucius is a figure of the early church named in Acts 13:1 as one of the prophets and teachers of the church at Antioch. He was from Cyrene in North Africa.

• MarcionismHeresies & Cults

  Marcionism is the teaching of the second-century teacher Marcion and his followers. It held that the Creator God of the Old Testament and the God who sent Jesus Christ were distinct beings, rejected the Old Testament, and established its own canon of Scripture. The early Church Fathers repudiated it as a heresy.

• PhiladelphiaBible

  Philadelphia was a city in the region of Lydia in Asia Minor and the site of the sixth of the seven churches that receive letters from Christ in Revelation 2–3.

• The HolocaustHistory

  The Holocaust was the systematic murder of approximately six million European Jews by Nazi Germany and its collaborators during the World War II era. After the war, it prompted the churches to reexamine antisemitism and replacement theology.

• Teresa of ÁvilaPeople

  Teresa of Ávila (1515–1582) was a Spanish Catholic nun and mystic (one who seeks direct union with God). She reformed the Carmelite Order, founding the Discalced Carmelites, and wrote The Interior Castle. In 1970 she became the first woman proclaimed a Doctor of the Church.

• SilasPeople

  Silas appears in the New Testament book of Acts as a leader of the Jerusalem church who accompanied Paul on his second missionary journey. In the Pauline epistles and 1 Peter he appears under the name Silvanus.

• 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.

• LuciusPeople

  Lucius was a companion of the apostle Paul who was with him when he wrote the Epistle to the Romans and who sent greetings to the church in Rome. Paul called him one of his "kinsmen." He is mentioned only once in Scripture, in Romans 16:21.

• The NavigatorsInstitutions

  The Navigators is an interdenominational mission organization founded by Dawson Trotman in the United States in 1933. It is known for discipleship training centered on one-to-one mentoring and Scripture memorization. Its ministry in Korea officially began in 1966.

• Church CaféChristian Life

  A church café is a coffee shop that a church operates inside its sanctuary building or an auxiliary building. Its main purposes are to foster fellowship among members and to provide a place of contact with local residents.

• PhilipPeople

  Philip is the name of two figures in the New Testament: Philip the Apostle, one of the twelve disciples of Jesus, and Philip the Evangelist, one of the seven men appointed by the church in Jerusalem.

• RockBible

  A rock is a large, solid mass of stone. In the Bible it appears as the actual rock that gave water in the wilderness, and it also serves as a figure for God's unchanging protection, for Christ, and for the foundation of the church.

• Romans 13:8–10Bible Verses

  A passage in which Paul urges the church in Rome to owe no one anything except the debt of loving one another and declares that love is the fulfilling of the law. It is frequently cited in discussions of the relationship between law and love and is also invoked as a teaching about debt.

• Genesis 3:15Bible Verses

  Genesis 3:15 is God's declaration to the serpent that the seed of the woman "shall bruise thy head." The church has called this verse the Protoevangelium, the first announcement of Christ's victory, and interpreters differ over the identity of the seed.

• Romans 9:18–23Bible Verses

  In this passage Paul uses the analogy of the potter and the vessels to explain God's sovereignty in both showing mercy and hardening. It is one of the texts most frequently cited in the debate over predestination and free will.

• 1 Corinthians 3:6–7Bible Verses

  In this passage Paul addresses the factions in the Corinthian church, saying that he planted and Apollos watered, but God gave the increase. It is frequently cited as a warning against exalting ministers and as grounds for locating the source of church growth in God.

• 1 Corinthians 14:34–35Bible Verses

  A Pauline passage instructing, "Let your women keep silence in the churches," and directing that if they wish to learn anything, they should "ask their husbands at home." It is a central text in debates over the ordination of women and the role of women in the church. Its position in the manuscript tradition is also debated.

• Matthew 6:9-13Bible Verses

  Matthew 6:9-13 contains the prayer Jesus taught his disciples, which the church recites together as the Lord's Prayer. Discussion of the passage addresses how its form differs from the version in Luke, the absence of the closing doxology from the oldest manuscripts, and the translation of several of its words.

• Acts 20:35Bible Verses

  Acts 20:35 is the verse in which Paul, taking leave of the elders of the church at Ephesus, urges them to remember the words of the Lord Jesus: "It is more blessed to give than to receive." It is one of the rare verses that preserve a saying of Jesus not recorded in the four Gospels, and it is widely cited to encourage sharing and giving.

• Romans 11:28-29Bible Verses

  Romans 11:28-29 is a passage in which Paul states that Israel, though it has not accepted the gospel, remains beloved of God for the sake of the fathers, and that God's gifts and calling are not withdrawn. It is frequently discussed for its bearing on the future of Israel and because verse 29 is often applied to individual vocation.