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• PentecostalismDoctrine & Theology

  Pentecostalism is a Protestant movement that places the experience of the Holy Spirit and the gifts of the Spirit at the center of faith. It began in the United States in the early twentieth century. In Korea it is widely known under the name "Full Gospel."

• Acts 2:1–4Bible Verses

  This passage recounts how the Holy Spirit came upon the disciples gathered on the day of Pentecost with a sound like a rushing wind and with tongues as of fire, and how they began to speak in other languages. The event is commemorated as the beginning of the church. What these tongues were, and whether the same experience continues today, are major points of disagreement among denominations.

• Luke 3Bible

  Luke 3 recounts John the Baptist's preaching of a baptism of repentance and his imprisonment, the descent of the Holy Spirit and the voice from heaven at Jesus' baptism, and the genealogy of Jesus, traced back from Joseph to Adam and to God.

• PentecostFeasts & Seasons

  Pentecost is a church festival observed on the Sunday that falls on the fiftieth day after Easter. It commemorates the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the disciples of Jesus Christ (Acts 2). It is also called Pentecost Sunday.

• ShebaBible

  Sheba is the name of a land in Arabia and of its people in the Old Testament. It is portrayed as a wealthy, distant land to the south that traded in gold and frankincense. It is best known as the kingdom of the Queen of Sheba, who visited Solomon.

• Genesis 4Bible

  Genesis 4 recounts the offerings of Cain and Abel, the two sons of Adam and Eve; the first murder; Cain's punishment and descendants; and the birth of Seth. The chapter contains 26 verses.

• 1 Chronicles 1Bible

  First Chronicles 1 is a genealogy that runs from Adam through Noah and Abraham to Isaac's sons, Esau and Israel. It closes with lists of the descendants of Edom, its kings, and its chiefs.

• Eugene BellPeople

  Eugene Bell (1868–1925), known in Korean as Bae Yu-ji, was an American Southern Presbyterian missionary to Korea. He founded mission stations in Mokpo and Gwangju and opened churches, schools, and a hospital, earning the title "Father of the Honam Mission."

• John OwenPeople

  John Owen (1616–1683) was an English Puritan theologian and pastor. A leading representative of the Congregationalists (Independents), he served as vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford. He is widely known for his works on sanctification, the life of growing in holiness, such as *The Mortification of Sin*.

• 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.

• David BoschPeople

  David Jacobus Bosch (1929–1992) was a South African missiologist. He is best known for Transforming Mission (1991), which traces how missionary thought has changed over the course of history.

• Gospel of NicodemusBible

  The Gospel of Nicodemus is an ancient Christian text that recounts the trial, death, and resurrection of Jesus and his descent into Hades. Also known as the Acts of Pilate, it is a work of New Testament apocrypha and is not part of the biblical canon.

• Hadad the EdomitePeople

  Hadad was a member of the Edomite royal family who fled from Edom to Egypt in the time of David and later returned to become an adversary of Solomon. He appears in 1 Kings 11.

• Daniel (Prophet)People

  Daniel was a man of Judah who, according to the Bible, served in the royal court during the Babylonian exile. He is the central figure of the Book of Daniel and is widely known for interpreting dreams and for his deliverance from the lions' den.

• GenealogyBible

  A genealogy is a record that traces descent from ancestors to descendants by name. In the Bible, genealogies appear in Genesis, 1 Chronicles, Matthew, Luke, and elsewhere.

• ColumbaPeople

  Columba (c. 521–597) was an Irish monk and missionary. He founded a monastery on the island of Iona off the west coast of Scotland and, using it as his base, spread Christianity in Scotland and northern England.

• Ephesians 4:8–10Bible Verses

  A passage in which Paul cites a psalm to say that Christ ascended on high and gave gifts to men, and explains that he had first descended into "the lower parts of the earth." It is frequently discussed in connection with the gifts and offices of the church, the Ascension, and the interpretation of the descent into hell in the Apostles' Creed.

• 1 Peter 3:19–20Bible Verses

  This passage states that Christ, by the Spirit, "preached unto the spirits in prison." Because it is unclear when Christ preached, to whom, and what he proclaimed, it is regarded as one of the most difficult texts in the New Testament to interpret. It is closely tied to discussion of the Apostles' Creed clause on Christ's descent into hell.

• 1 Peter 4:6Bible Verses

  First Peter 4:6 states that the gospel was preached also to the dead so that, though judged in the flesh, they might live according to God in the spirit. Interpretations of the verse differ because it is bound up with questions about Christ's descent into hell and the possibility of salvation after death.