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• Former Prophets

  [Bible]

  The Former Prophets are the first four books of the Prophets, the second division of the Hebrew Bible: Joshua, Judges, Samuel, and Kings. In the Christian Old Testament, the same books are classified as historical books.

• Lifting of Church Discipline

  [Organization & Polity]

  The lifting of church discipline is the act of releasing a person from a penalty imposed through church discipline. When the disciplined person is judged to have repented, the church court that pronounced the penalty resolves to restore that member's rights.

• Hill Country of Ephraim

  [Bible]

  The hill country of Ephraim is the mountainous region of central Canaan west of the Jordan River. Occupied mainly by the tribe of Ephraim, it is the setting for numerous events in Joshua, Judges, and 1 Samuel.

• New Homiletic

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  The New Homiletic is a movement in preaching theory that arose in North America in the late 1960s. Rather than following traditional preaching that logically unfolds propositions, it emphasizes inductive development and narrative structure so that listeners may experience the Word.

• Civil Disobedience

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  Civil disobedience is the act of openly and nonviolently breaking a law or state order that one judges in conscience to be unjust, while accepting the resulting punishment. In Christianity it is treated as a question of what to do when obedience to the state conflicts with obedience to God.

• Psalm 50

  [Bible]

  Psalm 50 bears the superscription "A Psalm of Asaph." In it God, acting as judge, summons his people, rebukes merely formal sacrifice and hypocritical living, and calls for the sacrifice of thanksgiving and upright conduct.

• Psalm 50:15

  [Bible Verses]

  A verse in Psalm 50 in which God calls His covenant people to offer thanksgiving and to call upon Him rather than to bring merely formal sacrifices, and promises to deliver them when they call on Him in the day of trouble. It is widely cited as both a command to pray and a promise that prayer will be answered.

• Winepress

  [Bible]

  A winepress is an installation in which grapes are trodden by foot to extract their juice. In the Bible it can signify the blessing of harvest, and it also serves as a symbol of God's judgment.

• Jeremiah 7

  [Bible]

  Jeremiah 7 contains the so-called "Temple Sermon," which Jeremiah proclaimed at the gate of the temple. It rebukes Judah for trusting in the mere presence of the temple while refusing to forsake sin, and warns that the nation will be judged as Shiloh was.

• James 4:13–15

  [Bible Verses]

  James 4:13–15 rebukes those who, though they cannot know what tomorrow will bring, boast of their plans for trade and travel while leaving God out of account, and urges them to live with the attitude expressed in the words "If the Lord will." The passage is frequently cited in discussions of the brevity of life and of God's providence.

• Noah's Ark

  [Bible]

  Noah's Ark is the large vessel that Noah built at God's command in Genesis 6–9, in which Noah's family of eight and the animals survived the judgment of the Flood.

• Job 9

  [Bible]

  Job 9 is the first part of Job's reply to Bildad's first speech. Job laments that no one can plead his own righteousness before God's overwhelming power, and he protests that there is no one to judge between them.

• Luke 6

  [Bible]

  Luke 6 records two Sabbath controversies and the choosing of the twelve apostles, followed by the so-called Sermon on the Plain, which consists of blessings and woes, love for enemies, the command not to judge, and the parable of the house built on a rock.

• Romans 14

  [Bible]

  Romans 14 addresses believers in the church at Rome who were divided over food and the observance of days. It urges them not to judge one another and to act in love for the sake of the weaker brother. The chapter contains 23 verses.

• 2 Thessalonians 1

  [Bible]

  Second Thessalonians 1 records the thanksgiving of Paul and his companions for the Thessalonian church, whose faith and love are growing in the midst of persecution. The chapter teaches that when the Lord Jesus is revealed, God will judge justly and grant rest to the saints, and it includes a prayer on the believers' behalf.

• Generational Curse Theory

  [Controversies]

  Generational curse theory is the teaching that curses pass down to descendants because of their ancestors' sins or idolatry and must therefore be broken through prayer. Several Korean denominations have judged it unbiblical.

• Baal

  [Bible]

  Baal, a Hebrew word meaning "lord" or "master," is the name of the god whom the Canaanites worshiped as a deity of rain and fertility in the Old Testament. The name appears in Judges, Kings, and the prophetic books as the chief representative of the idolatry into which Israel repeatedly fell.

• Korah's Rebellion

  [Bible]

  Korah's rebellion is an event recorded in Numbers 16 in which Korah the Levite and Dathan and Abiram of the tribe of Reuben, together with 250 leaders, challenged the authority of Moses and Aaron and were judged.

• Luz

  [Bible]

  Luz was the earlier name of the city that Jacob renamed Bethel. It appears in Genesis, Joshua, and Judges; Judges also mentions a different city of the same name founded in the land of the Hittites.

• Adoni-bezek

  [People]

  Adoni-bezek was a Canaanite king of Bezek who appears in Judges 1. Defeated by the tribes of Judah and Simeon, he had his thumbs and great toes cut off, and he confessed that God had repaid him for what he had done to other kings.