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• Korea Baptist Theological University

  [Institutions]

  Korea Baptist Theological University is a private theological university in Yuseong District, Daejeon, South Korea. It opened in 1953 and serves as the denominational seminary of the Korea Baptist Convention. In Korean it is commonly called by the abbreviation Chimsindae.

• Samaritans

  [Bible]

  The Samaritans were a people who lived in the region of Samaria in central Palestine, regarded Mount Gerizim as their place of worship, and accepted only the Five Books of Moses as Scripture. In the New Testament period they were bitterly at odds with the Jews.

• Cilicia

  [Bible]

  Cilicia was a region on the Mediterranean coast of southeastern Asia Minor. Tarsus, the hometown of the apostle Paul, was located there, and the region is mentioned in Acts and Galatians.

• Psalm 115

  [Bible]

  Psalm 115 is a hymn of praise that contrasts the powerlessness of man-made idols with the LORD who is in heaven, calling God's people to give glory to God alone and to trust in the LORD. It is one of the Hallel psalms (Psalms 113–118).

• Pathros

  [Bible]

  Pathros is a place name in the Old Testament books of Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel. It refers to the southern part of ancient Egypt, the region along the upper Nile known as Upper Egypt.

• Acts 27

  [Bible]

  Acts 27 is the chapter in which Paul, being taken to Rome as a prisoner, encounters the tempestuous wind Euroclydon near Crete and drifts for fourteen days. Although the ship is wrecked, all 276 people aboard reach land alive.

• Bani (Levite)

  [People]

  Bani was a Levite in the time of Nehemiah. When Ezra read the Law aloud, Bani helped the people understand its meaning, and at the assembly held for fasting he stood on the platform and cried out to God (Nehemiah 8:7; 9:4-5).

• Urban Industrial Mission

  [History]

  Urban Industrial Mission was a mission movement that Korean Protestants began among factory workers in the late 1950s. It initially focused on evangelizing workers, but in the 1970s it became a movement for workers' rights.

• Rehum

  [People]

  Rehum was a Persian provincial official mentioned in Ezra 4. With Shimshai the scribe, he sent a letter to King Artaxerxes that brought the rebuilding work in Jerusalem to a halt.

• Pithom

  [Bible]

  Pithom is an Egyptian city mentioned alongside Raamses in Exodus 1:11 as one of the treasure cities that the children of Israel built for Pharaoh under forced labor.

• Zeresh

  [People]

  Zeresh is the wife of Haman in the Old Testament Book of Esther. She urged her husband to set up a gallows on which to hang Mordecai, but later told him that he would not prevail against Mordecai.

• Euodia and Syntyche

  [People]

  Euodia and Syntyche were two women believers in the church at Philippi, named in Philippians 4:2. Paul urged them to "be of the same mind in the Lord."

• Women's Evangelistic Society

  [Organization & Polity]

  A Women's Evangelistic Society is a self-governing association formed by the women members of a church for evangelism, missions, and service. Methodist churches and some other denominations call it a Women's Missionary Society.

• Adultery

  [Bible]

  Adultery is sexual intercourse between a married person and someone other than his or her spouse. The Bible forbids it in the Ten Commandments, and the prophets also used the term as a metaphor for forsaking God to serve idols.

• Confirmation

  [Worship & Rites]

  Confirmation is the rite by which a person baptized in infancy, upon growing up, personally professes the faith and becomes a full baptized member of the church. In Korean Protestant usage it is commonly called ipgyo ("entering the church"), while Lutheran and some other churches use a term meaning "rite of strengthening faith."

• Book of Common Prayer

  [Worship & Rites]

  The Book of Common Prayer is the official liturgical book used in Anglican churches for worship and prayer. First produced during the English Reformation in the sixteenth century, it contains the orders of service and prayers for daily prayer, Holy Communion, and various other rites.

• Revelation 14:1-5

  [Bible Verses]

  Revelation 14:1-5 records a vision of the 144,000 standing with the Lamb on Mount Zion and singing a new song. Interpreters disagree about the identity of the 144,000, and the passage is frequently discussed because some groups cite it in support of their doctrines.

• 1 Corinthians 11:11-12

  [Bible Verses]

  A passage in which Paul, while addressing the question of head coverings in worship at the Corinthian church, states that "in the Lord" man and woman depend on each other and that all things are of God. It is frequently cited in discussions of women's ordination, with debate centering on how it relates to the preceding argument about the order of man and woman.

• Jeiel (Father of Gibeon)

  [People]

  Jeiel is a Benjamite recorded in the genealogies of 1 Chronicles as "the father of Gibeon." He is an ancestor of the family that descends through Ner and Kish to King Saul. Several other people with the same name appear in the Bible.

• Crusades

  [History]

  The Crusades were a series of military expeditions undertaken by Catholic Western Europe from the late eleventh to the late thirteenth century at the call of the popes, with the stated aim of recovering Jerusalem and the other holy places from Muslim powers.