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• Predestination and Free WillControversies

  Predestination and free will is a debate over whether salvation depends on God's election or on the human response. Calvinism, followed by Presbyterians, and the Arminian-Wesleyan tradition, followed by Methodists, Holiness churches, and Full Gospel churches, explain the question differently.

• Scottish ReformationHistory

  The Scottish Reformation was the mid-sixteenth-century transformation in which Scotland broke with the Roman Catholic Church and adopted a Calvinist Protestant church order. Led by John Knox, it reached its turning point with the decisions of Parliament in 1560. It is regarded today as one of the roots of worldwide Presbyterianism.

• George WhitefieldPeople

  George Whitefield (1714–1770) was a priest of the Church of England and an itinerant preacher. He is regarded as one of the figures who sparked the eighteenth-century Great Awakening through his open-air preaching in Britain and the North American colonies, and he was a leader of Calvinistic Methodism.

• John the BaptistPeople

  John the Baptist was a Jewish prophet who came before Jesus Christ, calling people to repentance and baptizing in the Jordan River. The New Testament presents him as the one who prepared the way for the Messiah.

• John 2Bible

  John 2 records Jesus' "first sign," in which he turned water into wine at a wedding feast in Cana of Galilee, and his driving out of those who were selling in the temple in Jerusalem at Passover.

• John 1Bible

  John 1 is the first chapter of the Gospel of John. It contains the prologue declaring that the Word, who was in the beginning, became flesh; the testimony of John the Baptist; and the account of how Andrew, Peter, Philip, and Nathanael came to follow Jesus.

• ZebedeePeople

  Zebedee was a Galilean fisherman and the father of James and John, two of the twelve disciples of Jesus. In the Gospels his name appears mostly in the phrase "the sons of Zebedee."

• Acts 3Bible

  Acts 3 recounts how Peter and John, in the name of Jesus, raise up a man lame from birth at the temple gate called Beautiful, and how Peter then preaches to the people gathered in Solomon's Porch, calling them to repentance.

• LollardsHistory

  The Lollards were a religious movement in late fourteenth-century England, or the adherents of that movement, who followed the teachings of John Wycliffe in upholding the authority of Scripture and calling for the reform of the church. Protestants commonly regard them as forerunners of the Reformation.

• Mark 1Bible

  Mark 1 is the first chapter of the Gospel of Mark. It contains the superscription announcing the beginning of the gospel, the ministry of John the Baptist, the baptism and wilderness temptation of Jesus, the calling of the first disciples, and Jesus' teaching and healing in Capernaum and throughout Galilee.

• Tax CollectorBible

  Tax collectors (publicans) appear in the New Testament Gospels as people who collected taxes and tolls under Roman rule. Jewish society regarded them as sinners, and the Gospels record several occasions on which Jesus associated with them.

• Sea of GalileeBible

  The Sea of Galilee is a freshwater lake in the region of Galilee in northern Israel. Jesus Christ spent much of His public ministry there, and it appears frequently in the Gospels as the setting where He called disciples and performed many miracles.

• Sea of GalileeBible

  The Sea of Galilee is a freshwater lake in the region of Galilee in northern Israel. Most of Jesus' public ministry took place along its shores. The Old Testament calls it the Sea of Chinnereth, and the New Testament calls it the Sea of Galilee, the Lake of Gennesaret, and the Sea of Tiberias.

• John 21:15–17Bible Verses

  John 21:15–17 is the passage in which the risen Jesus, on the shore of the Sea of Tiberias, asks Simon Peter three times, "Lovest thou me?" and charges him, "Feed my sheep." It is frequently cited as a text about Peter's restoration and the pastoral calling.

• JohnPeople

  John was one of the twelve disciples of Jesus, the son of Zebedee and the brother of James. He has traditionally been regarded as the author of the Gospel of John, the Epistles of John, and the Book of Revelation.

• John WesleyPeople

  John Wesley (1703–1791) was a priest of the Church of England. He launched the Methodist movement in eighteenth-century England and is regarded as the founder of Methodism. His theology also influenced the Holiness movement, The Salvation Army, and the Pentecostal movement.

• Gospel of JohnBible

  The Gospel of John is the fourth book of the New Testament and the last of the four Gospels. It presents Jesus as the Son of God and the Word made flesh, and it consists of twenty-one chapters.

• John StottPeople

  John R. W. Stott (1921–2011) was an English Anglican priest, preacher, and author. A leading figure in the worldwide evangelical movement of the twentieth century, he led the drafting of the Lausanne Covenant in 1974.

• John RossPeople

  John Ross (1842–1915) was a missionary to Manchuria, China, sent by the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland. Working with Korean collaborators, he published the first Korean New Testament, *Yesu Seonggyo Jeonseo* (1887).

• John 1:1Bible Verses

  John 1:1, the opening verse of the Gospel of John, declares that the Word, who existed in the beginning, was with God and was God. As a principal text for the deity of Jesus, it has long been disputed between proponents of the doctrine of the Trinity and groups that reject that doctrine and translate the verse differently.