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• G. K. ChestertonPeople

  G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) was an English journalist, author, and Christian apologist. He is best known for apologetic works such as Orthodoxy and for his Father Brown detective stories. In 1922 he left the Church of England and was received into the Roman Catholic Church.

• Mount HorebBible

  Mount Horeb is the mountain the Old Testament calls "the mountain of God." There Moses received God's call from the flame of the burning bush, Israel received the covenant, and Elijah met God. It is generally understood to be the same mountain as Mount Sinai.

• Exodus 3Bible

  Exodus 3 is the chapter in which God appears to Moses in the burning bush at Mount Horeb and calls him. God commissions him to bring Israel out of Egypt and reveals His name as "I AM THAT I AM" and "the LORD."

• MichalPeople

  Michal was the younger daughter of Saul, the first king of Israel, and the first wife of David. She appears in 1 and 2 Samuel and is known for helping David escape from her father Saul and for despising David as he danced before the Ark of the Covenant.

• Billy SundayPeople

  Billy Sunday (1862–1935) was an American revivalist and former professional baseball player. A Presbyterian minister, he is known for holding large-scale revival campaigns in major American cities in the early twentieth century and for his leading role in the temperance movement.

• John LennoxPeople

  John Carson Lennox (born 1943) is a Northern Irish mathematician and Christian apologist. He is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford and is known for his public debates with atheists and for his books on the relationship between science and faith.

• Helen Thompson SundayPeople

  Helen Thompson Sunday (1868–1957) was an American evangelist. As the wife of the revivalist Billy Sunday, she organized his large-scale evangelistic campaigns, and after his death she became an evangelistic speaker in her own right.

• Cave of AdullamBible

  The Cave of Adullam was a cave in the western foothills of Judah where David hid from King Saul and where people in difficult circumstances gathered to him, as recorded in 1 Samuel 22.

• 1 Samuel 20Bible

  1 Samuel 20 is the chapter in which Jonathan arranges an arrow signal to learn whether Saul intends to kill David and, once he learns Saul's intent, parts from David in tears.

• Adolf von HarnackPeople

  Adolf von Harnack (1851–1930) was a German Protestant theologian and church historian. The author of the *History of Dogma* and *What Is Christianity?*, he is regarded as a leading representative of liberal theology in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

• GoshenBible

  Goshen was the land in Egypt where Jacob's family settled after going down there in the time of Joseph. In Exodus it appears as the land that God set apart as the dwelling place of the Israelites when He sent the plagues.

• John ChrysostomPeople

  John Chrysostom (c. 347–407) was a Church Father from Antioch who served as Archbishop of Constantinople. His outstanding preaching earned him the epithet "Golden Mouth."

• Malcolm FenwickPeople

  Malcolm C. Fenwick (1863–1935) was a Canadian independent missionary to Korea. In 1906, at Ganggyeong in South Chungcheong Province, he founded the Church of Christ in Corea (Daehan Gidokgyohoe), the parent body of the Korea Baptist Convention. He is regarded as the founder of the Baptist church in Korea.

• Genesis 46Bible

  Genesis 46 is the chapter in which Jacob leads his entire household down to Egypt and is reunited with Joseph in Goshen. It includes a list of the seventy members of Jacob's house who came into Egypt.

• Cyril of AlexandriaPeople

  Cyril of Alexandria (c. 376–444) was a fifth-century bishop of Alexandria and Church Father who opposed Nestorius at the Council of Ephesus in 431 and led the development of a Christology emphasizing the one person of Christ.

• John BunyanPeople

  John Bunyan (1628–1688) was an English Puritan preacher and author. He is best known for *The Pilgrim's Progress*, written during his imprisonment. The book has also been among the most widely read devotional works in Korean Protestantism since its earliest years.

• Josh McDowellPeople

  Josh McDowell (born 1939) is an American evangelical Christian apologist and evangelist. He became widely known through his 1972 book Evidence That Demands a Verdict and lectured at universities around the world as a speaker with Campus Crusade for Christ.

• Bang Ji-ilPeople

  Bang Ji-il (1911–2014) was a minister of the Presbyterian Church of Korea (Tonghap). Beginning in 1937, he served for twenty-one years as a missionary in Shandong Province, China. After returning to Korea, he became senior pastor of Yeongdeungpo Church in Seoul and moderator of his denomination's General Assembly. Because he remained active past the age of one hundred, he was known as "the eternal active-duty minister."

• JochebedPeople

  Jochebed was the wife of Amram of the tribe of Levi and the mother of Moses, Aaron, and Miriam. She is known for hiding the infant Moses when Pharaoh ordered that Hebrew baby boys be killed and then placing him in an ark of bulrushes by the Nile.

• John 10:27–29Bible Verses

  A passage in which Jesus says that he gives eternal life to his sheep and that no one can pluck them out of his hand or his Father's hand. It is frequently cited in discussions among denominations concerning the perseverance of the saints and the assurance of salvation.