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• Evangelical Counsels

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  In Catholic theology, the evangelical counsels are three ways of life: poverty, chastity, and obedience. Unlike the commandments, which bind all believers, they are regarded as recommended for voluntary adoption by those seeking a more perfect life.

• Purgatory

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  In Catholic doctrine, purgatory is the state of purification through which souls who died in grace but were not yet fully purified pass before entering heaven. Protestants generally do not accept it.

• Arabia

  [Bible]

  Arabia is a biblical place name for the desert regions east and south of Israel and for the peoples who lived there. In the New Testament it is known as the place where Paul went after his conversion (Galatians 1:17).

• Cheap Grace

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  Cheap grace is a term for grace that involves no repentance, obedience, or transformation of life. It became widely known through the German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who contrasted it with "costly grace" in The Cost of Discipleship.

• Philippians 3:13–14

  [Bible Verses]

  In this passage the apostle Paul confesses that he has not yet been made perfect and says that, forgetting those things which are behind, he presses on toward the prize of God's high calling. Because of its image of "the mark," it is frequently quoted in connection with spiritual progress and new beginnings.

• Revelation 11

  [Bible]

  Revelation 11 records the measuring of the temple; the two witnesses who prophesy for 1,260 days, are killed, and rise again; the sounding of the seventh trumpet; and the opening of the temple in heaven.

• Jude 1

  [Bible]

  Jude 1 is the only chapter of the Epistle of Jude. It warns against false teachers who have crept into the church, comparing them with examples of judgment from the Old Testament, urges believers to hold fast to the faith, and closes with a doxology.

• Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector

  [Bible]

  The Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector is a parable of Jesus found in Luke 18:9–14. A Pharisee boasts of his own righteousness, while a tax collector pleads for mercy, and it is the tax collector who goes home justified. The parable teaches humility and the proper attitude in prayer.

• Martyrdom

  [Christian Life]

  Martyrdom is being put to death for keeping the faith or for refusing to renounce it. A person who dies in this way is called a martyr, and from its earliest days the church has remembered martyrs as examples of faith.

• Beautiful Gate

  [Bible]

  The Beautiful Gate was one of the gates of the Temple in Jerusalem. According to Acts 3, it was the place where Peter and John healed a man who had been lame from birth.

• Jeremiah 40

  [Bible]

  Jeremiah 40 recounts how, after the fall of Jerusalem, Nebuzaradan, the Babylonian captain of the guard, releases Jeremiah, who then goes to Gedaliah, the governor at Mizpah, and stays there with the people left in the land.

• Malchijah

  [People]

  Malchijah is a Hebrew name borne by several different people in the Old Testament books of 1 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, and Jeremiah. Nehemiah 3 names three men called Malchijah who took part in rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem.

• History of the Baptists in Korea

  [History]

  The history of the Baptists in Korea traces the Korean Baptist church from its beginnings in 1889 with the work of Malcolm Fenwick, an independent Canadian missionary, through the Korea Christian Church and the East Asia Christian Church to today's Korea Baptist Convention.

• Jeremiah 42

  [Bible]

  Jeremiah 42 is the chapter in which the people left in Judah after the assassination of Gedaliah ask Jeremiah to seek the LORD's direction for them. God promises to protect them if they remain in the land of Judah, and He warns that if they go to Egypt, they will die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence.

• Local Church

  [Heresies & Cults]

  The Local Church is a Christian movement begun in twentieth-century China by Watchman Nee and continued and spread by Witness Lee. Holding that there is only one church in each city, it does not use denominational names. Several Korean Presbyterian denominations have declared it heretical.

• Monasticism

  [History]

  Monasticism is the movement, beginning in the deserts of Egypt and Syria in the third and fourth centuries, through which a life of prayer, labor, and asceticism lived apart from the world became established in communities and institutions. It stood at the center of the medieval church, and since the Reformation the various Christian traditions have assessed it differently.

• Psalm 58:3

  [Bible Verses]

  A verse in Psalm 58 that indicts unjust rulers and judges and declares that the wicked go astray from birth. It is frequently cited in support of the doctrine of original sin. Interpreters debate whether it should be read as a statement about all people or as a poetic description of particular wicked individuals.

• Uzzi

  [People]

  Uzzi was the overseer of the Levites living in Jerusalem after the return from exile. He was the son of Bani and belonged to the descendants of Asaph, the family responsible for singing in the temple (Nehemiah 11:22).

• Galatians 2:20

  [Bible Verses]

  Galatians 2:20 reads, "I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me." Regarded as the most intense expression of union with Christ, the verse is discussed in connection with justification, sanctification, and the debate over how to translate "the faith of Christ."

• Missionary

  [Church Offices]

  A missionary is a person whom a church or mission organization sends to another region or culture to proclaim the gospel and to carry out work such as church planting, education, medical care, and relief.