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• Cappadocian FathersHistory

  A collective name for three fourth-century theologians from Cappadocia in Asia Minor: Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nyssa, and Gregory of Nazianzus. They articulated the Trinitarian formula that God exists as one essence in three persons.

• Gift of ProphecyDoctrine & Theology

  The gift of prophecy is one of the gifts of the Holy Spirit and refers to the ability to convey God's will and word to people. Denominations differ on whether the gift continues today and on what should be regarded as prophecy.

• William WilberforcePeople

  British politician (1759–1833). Drawing on his evangelical faith, he led the parliamentary campaign to abolish the slave trade for nearly twenty years and played a major role in the passage of the Slave Trade Act of 1807.

• John G. PatonPeople

  John Gibson Paton (1824–1907) was a Scottish Presbyterian missionary. He served on the islands of Tanna and Aniwa in the New Hebrides (present-day Vanuatu) in the South Pacific and translated the New Testament into the Aniwan language.

• Robert Murray M'CheynePeople

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne (1813–1843) was a minister of the Church of Scotland. He served St. Peter's Church in Dundee and is widely known as the author of the "M'Cheyne Bible Reading Plan," a scheme for reading through the entire Bible in one year.

• C. T. StuddPeople

  C. T. Studd (1860–1931) was a British missionary and former England international cricketer. As one of the Cambridge Seven, he went to China, later served in India, and then worked in Africa, where he founded the forerunner of WEC International.

• Eric LiddellPeople

  Eric Liddell (1902–1945) was a Scottish athlete and missionary. At the 1924 Paris Olympics he declined to run in the 100 meters heats, which were held on a Sunday, and went on to win the gold medal in the 400 meters. He later served as a missionary in China and died in a Japanese internment camp.

• Exodus 9Bible

  Exodus 9 records the fifth (the plague on livestock), sixth (boils), and seventh (hail) of the ten plagues. Pharaoh confesses his wrongdoing, yet once the hail stops he hardens his heart again.

• Exodus 10Bible

  Exodus 10 records the eighth plague on Egypt, locusts, and the ninth, darkness. Pharaoh offers to let Israel go on certain conditions but finally drives Moses from his presence.

• Leo XIIIPeople

  Leo XIII (1810–1903) was the 256th pope of the Roman Catholic Church, reigning from 1878 to 1903. He is known for promulgating the encyclical Rerum Novarum (1891) on the labor question, which established the starting point of Catholic social teaching.

• Kim Pil-ryePeople

  Kim Pil-rye (1891–1983) was one of the three founders of the Korean YWCA. A Presbyterian educator, she served as principal of Speer Girls' School and Chungshin Girls' School and devoted her life to secondary education for women.

• 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.

• Numbers 30Bible

  Numbers 30 is a law concerning vows and oaths. It states the principle that a vow must be kept as spoken. It also provides that a father or husband may annul a vow made by a daughter in his house or by a wife on the day he hears of it.

• Deuteronomy 8Bible

  Deuteronomy 8 is the chapter in which Moses urges Israel to remember the Lord's guidance during the forty years in the wilderness and warns them not to grow proud and forget the Lord once they enjoy abundance in the Promised Land.

• Deuteronomy 28Bible

  Deuteronomy 28 is the chapter in which Moses proclaims to Israel the blessings that will follow obedience to the law (vv. 1–14) and the curses that will follow disobedience (vv. 15–68). The section on curses is far longer and foretells, in turn, disease, defeat in battle, siege, captivity, and dispersion.

• Psalm 10Bible

  Psalm 10 is a lament over the reality that the wicked oppress the poor and powerless while God seems far away, and a plea for God to arise and judge on behalf of the fatherless and the oppressed.

• Psalm 20Bible

  Psalm 20 is a prayer offered by the people on behalf of their king as he faces crisis or war. It is best known for its confession that the people will trust in the name of the LORD rather than in military might (v. 7).

• Psalm 24Bible

  Psalm 24 is a psalm of David that confesses that the whole earth belongs to the LORD, asks and answers who may ascend the hill of the LORD, and calls on the gates to open and receive the King of glory.

• Psalm 22Bible

  Psalm 22 is a psalm of David that moves from lament over suffering, as though forsaken by God, to praise for deliverance. In the New Testament it is one of the psalms most closely associated with the suffering of Jesus on the cross.

• Youth SundayChristian Life

  Youth Sunday is a commemorative Sunday on which a church prays for its young adult generation and young adults themselves lead worship and events as an expression of their faith.