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• Genesis 12:1–3

  [Bible Verses]

  The passage in which God commands Abram to leave his country, his kindred, and his father's house, promising to make of him a great nation and to bless him. It is regarded as a turning point in salvation history, and there is debate over whether "I will bless them that bless thee" should be applied to the modern State of Israel.

• Micah's Idol

  [Bible]

  Micah's idol refers to an episode recorded in Judges 17–18. Micah, an Ephraimite, made an idol for his household and established a private priesthood. The tribe of Dan later seized both and installed them at its new settlement, Dan.

• Amos 7

  [Bible]

  Amos 7 contains three of Amos's visions (locusts, fire, and a plumb line), along with the account of Amaziah, the priest of Bethel, who tries to silence Amos's prophecy and in turn receives a word of judgment.

• Wednesday Service

  [Worship & Rites]

  A Wednesday service is a midweek worship service held on Wednesday, between one Lord's Day and the next. It is also known as a Wednesday prayer meeting. Most Korean Protestant churches hold it on Wednesday evening, and in Korea it is also called the samil service ("third-day service").

• Church Plant

  [Organization & Polity]

  A church plant is a newly established church, founded in an area with no church or too few churches or directed toward a new group of people; the term also refers to the process of establishing such a church. In Korean Protestant usage, it commonly denotes a church in its early years with a small congregation and a limited financial base.

• Thanksgiving

  [Feasts & Seasons]

  Thanksgiving is a Protestant observance in which believers thank God for the year's harvest and for the grace they have received. Korean Protestant churches generally observe Thanksgiving Sunday on the third Sunday of November.

• Prayer Retreat Center (Kidowon)

  [Christian Life]

  A prayer retreat center, known in Korean as a kidowon, is a Protestant facility, usually built in the mountains or on the outskirts of a city, where people can devote themselves to prayer and fasting. Equipped with meeting halls and lodging, it is used for individual prayer and group retreats.

• Monothelitism

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  Monothelitism was a seventh-century Christological position holding that Jesus Christ, though possessing two natures, divine and human, has only one will. It was rejected by the Third Council of Constantinople in 680–681.

• Cornerstone Laying Ceremony

  [Worship & Rites]

  A cornerstone laying ceremony is a service held during the construction of a new sanctuary or church building, in which the cornerstone, or foundation stone, is set upon the foundation and the building work is committed to God.

• Seraiah

  [People]

  Seraiah was a high priest in the final years of the Kingdom of Judah who was executed by Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, after the fall of Jerusalem. He is recorded as the father of Jehozadak (Jozadak) and as an ancestor of Ezra.

• Perichoresis

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  Perichoresis is a theological term expressing that the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, while distinct from one another, dwell in one another and exist as one God. It is commonly rendered in English as "mutual indwelling."

• Wesleyan Theology

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  Wesleyan theology is a theological tradition rooted in the teachings of John Wesley, who led the eighteenth-century Methodist movement in England. It emphasizes grace extended to all people and a holy life (sanctification). Methodist and Holiness churches, among others, stand within this tradition.

• Song of Songs

  [Bible]

  The Song of Songs is a poetic book of the Old Testament, an eight-chapter poem celebrating the love and longing between a man and a woman. In Judaism and Christianity it has also long been read as a figure of the love between God and his people and between Christ and the Church.

• Common Grace

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  Common grace is a theological term for the grace God extends to all people and to the world, without distinction between believers and unbelievers. It is distinguished from special grace, which leads to salvation, and was developed chiefly within the Reformed tradition.

• Deborah

  [People]

  Deborah was a prophetess and judge in the Old Testament Book of Judges, known for defeating the army of Jabin, king of Canaan, together with Barak, and for the Song of Deborah, which commemorates the victory.

• Nicodemus

  [People]

  Nicodemus is a Pharisee and a ruler of the Jews who appears only in the Gospel of John. He came to Jesus by night and spoke with him about being born again, and after Jesus' death he joined Joseph of Arimathea in burying him.

• The Good Shepherd

  [Bible]

  The Good Shepherd is a figurative expression Jesus used of himself in John 10. It portrays the true leader as a shepherd who lays down his life for the sheep, in contrast to the hireling and the thief.

• Raising of the Widow's Son at Nain

  [Bible]

  A miracle in which Jesus met a funeral procession near the gate of the town of Nain in Galilee, raised a widow's only son from the dead, and restored him to his mother. It is recorded only in Luke 7:11-17.

• Song of Lamech

  [Bible]

  The Song of Lamech is a short poem in Genesis 4:23–24 in which Lamech, a descendant of Cain, tells his two wives that he has killed a man and boasts that his vengeance will far exceed Cain's.

• Spiritual Direction

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  Spiritual direction is a form of spiritual companionship in which a person of mature faith meets regularly with another individual to help that person discern and deepen a relationship with God in prayer and in daily life.