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1 Samuel 16:11–13
[Bible Verses]This passage recounts how Samuel anointed David, the youngest son of Jesse, and how the Spirit of the LORD came upon David from that day forward. It marks the turning point at which kingship passes from Saul to David and is frequently cited in discussions of divine election and the presence of the Holy Spirit.
Exodus 23
[Bible]Exodus 23 is the final chapter of the Book of the Covenant. It sets out ordinances on just judgment and on the treatment of enemies and strangers, establishes the sabbatical year and the Sabbath, and prescribes three annual feasts. It closes with God's promise to send an angel to lead Israel into Canaan.
Christian Wedding Service
[Worship & Rites]A Christian wedding service is a ceremony conducted as an act of worship in which a Christian man and woman make their marriage vows before God and receive a blessing upon their union. It is usually officiated by a pastor and may be held in a church or a wedding hall.
Acts 3:19
[Bible Verses]In this verse Peter, speaking in the temple, urges the people of Israel to repent and be converted so that their sins may be blotted out, promising that "times of refreshing" will then come from the presence of the Lord. Because it joins a call to repentance with an eschatological promise, it is frequently cited in sermons on repentance and in discussions of eschatology.
Brother Andrew
[People]Brother Andrew (1928–2022) was a Dutch lay missionary. Known as "God's Smuggler" for secretly carrying Bibles into Communist countries during the Cold War, he began Open Doors, a mission organization that serves the persecuted church, in 1955.
2 Samuel 12
[Bible]In this chapter the prophet Nathan exposes David's sin through a parable, and David confesses. The first child Bathsheba bore to David dies, Solomon is born, and David captures Rabbah, the royal city of the Ammonites.
Job 33
[Bible]Job 33 is the chapter in which Elihu first addresses Job by name and rebuts him directly. He argues that God awakens people through dreams and sickness in order to deliver them from death.
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.
Conversion
[Christian Life]Conversion is the change by which a person turns from sin to God and comes to believe in Jesus Christ. The term is often used alongside "being born again" and "regeneration," although some denominations distinguish conversion from regeneration.
Ezekiel 28
[Bible]Ezekiel 28 contains a prophecy rebuking the pride of the king of Tyre, a lament over him, a prophecy of judgment against Sidon, and a promise to regather scattered Israel.
Monophysitism
[Doctrine & Theology]Monophysitism is the Christological position that in the incarnate Jesus Christ the divine and human natures are united into a single nature. The Council of Chalcedon rejected it in 451 and confessed "two natures, one person" as orthodox teaching.
William Miller
[People]William Miller (1782–1849) was an American Baptist lay preacher who, on the basis of calculations from the prophecies of Daniel, proclaimed that Christ would return in 1843–1844. He was the central figure of the nineteenth-century Advent movement and of the Great Disappointment.
Healing of the Blind Man at Bethsaida
[Bible]The healing of the blind man at Bethsaida is a miracle in which Jesus spat on the eyes of a blind man at Bethsaida and laid his hands on him twice, restoring his sight in stages. Of the four Gospels, it appears only in Mark 8:22–26.
Macedonian Vision
[Bible]The Macedonian vision is the vision Paul saw at night in Troas during his second missionary journey. A man of Macedonia appealed to him, "Come over into Macedonia, and help us," and in response Paul and his companions crossed the sea to Philippi, where they preached the gospel (Acts 16:6–10).
2 Thessalonians 2:3–4
[Bible Verses]A passage in which Paul tells the church at Thessalonica that before "the day of the Lord" there will come an apostasy (a falling away from the faith) and that "the man of lawlessness" will be revealed. Because it is a principal text on the Antichrist and the sequence of end-time events, it is interpreted in widely differing ways.
Troas
[Bible]Troas was a port city on the Aegean coast of northwestern Asia Minor. The Book of Acts records it as the place where Paul saw the vision of the man of Macedonia and where Eutychus was restored to life.
Healing of the Paralytic
[Bible]The healing of the paralytic is a miracle in which Jesus, in a house in Capernaum, declared the forgiveness of sins to a paralyzed man who had been lowered through the roof, and then raised him up so that he walked. The account appears in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke.
Bartimaeus
[People]Bartimaeus was a blind beggar whom Jesus healed at Jericho. Mark 10 names him as "the son of Timaeus" and records that, after receiving his sight, he followed Jesus.
Publius
[People]Publius is the "chief man of the island" of Melita (Malta) mentioned in Acts 28. He hosted the shipwrecked Paul and his companions for three days, and Paul healed his father through prayer and the laying on of hands.
Song of Songs 7
[Bible]Song of Songs 7 is a love song in which the man praises the bride's beauty from her feet to her head, and the bride responds, "I am my beloved's," inviting him to go out with her to the fields and vineyards.