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• Lawyer (New Testament)

  [Bible]

  In the New Testament, especially the Gospel of Luke, a lawyer was an expert who studied and interpreted the Law of Moses. The best-known example is the lawyer who asked Jesus how to inherit eternal life, which prompted the parable of the Good Samaritan.

• Parable of the Good Samaritan

  [Bible]

  The Parable of the Good Samaritan is a parable of Jesus recorded in Luke 10:25-37. In answer to a lawyer's question, "And who is my neighbour?", Jesus tells the story of a Samaritan who helped a man who had been attacked by robbers.

• Matthew 22

  [Bible]

  Matthew 22 contains the parable of the wedding feast; the questions put to Jesus by the Pharisees, the Herodians, the Sadducees, and a lawyer concerning tribute, the resurrection, and the great commandment; and Jesus' counter-question about the son of David.

• Luke 10

  [Bible]

  Luke 10 is the chapter in which Jesus sends out the seventy, two by two, to proclaim the kingdom of God. It also contains the parable of the Good Samaritan, which arises from a conversation with a lawyer, and the account of Martha and Mary.

• Matthew 22:37–40

  [Bible Verses]

  In this passage Jesus, asked which is the greatest commandment, names love for God and love for neighbor and declares that all the law and the prophets hang on these two commandments. It is accepted across denominational lines as a summary of biblical ethics.

• Zenas

  [People]

  Zenas was a first-century Christian named only once in the New Testament, in Titus 3:13, where he is called "the lawyer." Paul asked Titus to help Zenas and Apollos on their journey.

• Luke 12

  [Bible]

  Luke 12 is the chapter in which Jesus, before a crowd of many thousands, teaches his disciples to beware of hypocrisy. It contains the parable of the rich fool, the teaching against anxiety, the parables of the watchful servants and the faithful steward, and the call to discern the times.

• Tel Dan Stele

  [History]

  The Tel Dan Stele consists of fragments of a ninth-century BC Aramaic stone inscription discovered in 1993–1994 at Tel Dan in northern Israel. It is widely accepted as the earliest extrabiblical source containing the phrase "House of David."

• A. W. Tozer

  [People]

  A. W. Tozer (1897–1963) was an American pastor and author in the Christian and Missionary Alliance (C&MA). He is widely known for books emphasizing a deep relationship with God, such as *The Pursuit of God* and *The Knowledge of the Holy*.

• Thomas à Kempis

  [People]

  Thomas à Kempis was a German-born monk who lived and worked in the Netherlands in the fifteenth century. He is known as the author of The Imitation of Christ, a devotional book that has been widely read across denominational lines.

• Youth With A Mission Korea (Yesu Jeondodan)

  [Institutions]

  Youth With A Mission Korea (YWAM Korea), known in Korean as Yesu Jeondodan, is an interdenominational mission organization founded in 1973 by David E. Ross, an American Southern Presbyterian missionary, from a university student fellowship. Since 1980 it has operated as the Korean branch of the international mission organization Youth With A Mission (YWAM).

• Healing of the Man with a Withered Hand

  [Bible]

  The healing of the man with a withered hand is a miracle in which Jesus, on the Sabbath, healed a man in a synagogue whose hand was withered. The account appears in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke, where it gives rise to a controversy over the Sabbath and prompts a plot to kill Jesus.

• Healing of the Deaf Man with a Speech Impediment

  [Bible]

  The healing of the deaf man with a speech impediment is a miracle in which Jesus, in the region of the Decapolis, healed a man who could not hear and could not speak properly by saying "Ephphatha." It appears only in Mark 7:31-37.

• R. A. Torrey

  [People]

  R. A. Torrey (1856–1928) was an American Congregational minister, revivalist, educator, and author. He worked alongside Dwight L. Moody, served as the first superintendent of the Moody Bible Institute, and later became dean of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles.

• Pastoral Call

  [Organization & Polity]

  A pastoral call is the process by which a church formally invites and receives a minister, such as a senior pastor or associate pastor, according to established procedures. The specific procedures and the body that makes the decision vary with each denomination's system of church government.

• 2 Corinthians 9:7

  [Bible Verses]

  A verse in which Paul instructs each believer to give as he has decided in his heart, "not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver." It is a key text on the proper attitude toward giving and is cited in the tithing debate as a basis for voluntary offerings.

• 2 Peter 3:8–9

  [Bible Verses]

  A passage declaring that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day, and that the Lord is not slack concerning His promise because He is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. It answers the problem of the delay of the Second Coming and has also been drawn into debates over the length of the creation days and attempts to calculate the end times.

• Jeremiah 1:5

  [Bible Verses]

  A verse from the call narrative of Jeremiah in which God declares that He knew Jeremiah before forming him in the womb, sanctified him before he came forth, and ordained him a prophet to the nations. It is a representative verse on vocation and divine foreknowledge and is also cited in discussions of predestination and bioethics.

• Isaiah 65:17–25

  [Bible Verses]

  A passage in the Book of Isaiah in which God promises to create "new heavens and a new earth," a world where weeping ceases and even the animals live in peace. It is frequently cited in discussions of the hope of new creation, and because verse 20 mentions death, it is a key text in debates over millennial interpretation.

• Psalm 90:4

  [Bible Verses]

  A verse from Psalm 90, traditionally attributed to Moses as a prayer, which states that in God's sight a thousand years are like yesterday when it is past, or like a brief watch in the night. It is regarded as the background to 2 Peter 3:8 and is frequently cited in discussions of the age of creation and the timing of the end times.