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• Chang Kee-ryo

  [People]

  Chang Kee-ryo (1911–1995) was a Korean surgeon and Christian social worker. He served as the first director of Gospel Hospital in Busan, and in 1968 he founded the Blue Cross Medical Insurance Cooperative to serve the poor.

• Philipp Jakob Spener

  [People]

  Philipp Jakob Spener (1635–1705) was a German Lutheran pastor and theologian. His *Pia Desideria* (1675) launched the German Pietist movement, and for this reason he is called the "Father of Pietism."

• Isaiah 9:6

  [Bible Verses]

  Isaiah 9:6 is the prophecy that "unto us a child is born," whose name "shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace." It is one of the best-known Christmas texts. Interpretations differ, both between Christianity and Judaism and between mainstream denominations and certain other groups, over whom these titles refer to and what they mean.

• John Knox

  [People]

  John Knox (c. 1514–1572) was a Scottish reformer. Drawing on the theology of John Calvin, he led the Scottish Reformation and is regarded as having laid the foundations of the Presbyterian Church.

• Psalm 139:13–14

  [Bible Verses]

  A hymn of praise attributed to David, declaring that God formed him in his mother's womb. Cherished as a passage on the dignity of human life, it is frequently cited in debates over abortion and bioethics as support for the personhood of the unborn.

• Jacob

  [People]

  Jacob is a patriarch of the Israelite people in the Book of Genesis, the son of Isaac and the younger twin brother of Esau. God gave him the new name "Israel," and his twelve sons became the ancestors of the twelve tribes of Israel.

• Revelation 12:9

  [Bible Verses]

  Revelation 12:9 belongs to the vision of war in heaven in Revelation 12. In it the great dragon is cast down to the earth and identified as "that old serpent," the Devil, and Satan. The verse is frequently cited in discussions of the Devil's identity and origin and of when Satan was cast out.

• Ephrath

  [Bible]

  Ephrath (Ephratah) is an ancient name for Bethlehem of Judah or its surrounding region. Scripture mentions it as the burial place of Rachel and the hometown of David's family, and the Book of Micah names it as the place from which a ruler would come forth.

• Lycaonia

  [Bible]

  Lycaonia was an inland region of south-central Asia Minor. Lystra and Derbe, where Paul and Barnabas preached the gospel on their first missionary journey in Acts 14, belonged to this region.

• Genesis 20

  [Bible]

  Genesis 20 recounts how Abraham, while sojourning in Gerar, presented his wife Sarah as his sister. Abimelech, king of Gerar, took her, but after God warned him in a dream, he returned her.

• Charlemagne

  [People]

  Charlemagne (born 742 or c. 747–748; died 814) was king of the Franks. On Christmas Day 800 he was crowned emperor by Pope Leo III, and he is regarded as the figure who established the framework of politics, the church, and learning in medieval Western Europe.

• 1 Peter 2

  [Bible]

  First Peter 2 calls believers a spiritual house built of living stones and a royal priesthood, and exhorts them to follow Christ's example by doing good in the face of worldly authority and suffering.

• Emma Revell

  [People]

  Emma Revell (1843–1903) was the wife of the American revivalist Dwight L. Moody. A Sunday school teacher, she is known for supporting her husband's ministry by handling its correspondence and finances.

• Holofernes

  [People]

  Holofernes is a character in the apocryphal Book of Judith who serves as commander in chief of King Nebuchadnezzar's army. He besieges Bethulia and is beheaded by the widow Judith.

• Kim Joon-gon

  [People]

  Kim Joon-gon (1925–2009) was a Korean Presbyterian minister of the Presbyterian Church of Korea. In 1958 he founded Korea Campus Crusade for Christ (KCCC). He also launched the first National Prayer Breakfast in South Korea and led the National Evangelization Movement.

• Isaiah 46:9

  [Bible Verses]

  A verse in which the God of Israel contrasts himself with the idols of Babylon and declares, "I am God, and there is none else." It is frequently cited in discussions of monotheism and the sovereignty of God.

• Kindergarten Department

  [Christian Life]

  The kindergarten department is the division of a church school that serves preschool children of roughly four to six years of age, offering faith education centered on worship, play, and storytelling.

• William Tyndale

  [People]

  William Tyndale (c. 1494–1536) was an English reformer and Bible translator. He produced the first printed New Testament translated into English from the original Greek and was executed on charges of heresy.

• Johannes Cocceius

  [People]

  Johannes Cocceius (1603–1669) was a Reformed theologian from Bremen, Germany, who worked in the Netherlands. He systematized covenant theology (also called federal theology), which reads the whole of Scripture as the unfolding of God's covenants.

• Louis Severance

  [People]

  Louis Henry Severance (1838–1913) was an American businessman and Presbyterian layman. He served as treasurer of Standard Oil and is known as the benefactor who funded the construction of Severance Hospital in Seoul.