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Prozbul
[History]The prozbul is a Jewish legal institution devised by Hillel. Because the sabbatical-year law canceling debts every seven years had made people reluctant to lend, Hillel allowed creditors to transfer their claims to a court so that the debts could still be collected after the sabbatical year.
Julian (Roman Emperor)
[People]Julian (331–363), a nephew of Constantine I, the emperor who legalized Christianity, ruled the Roman Empire from 361 to 363. Although he was raised as a Christian, after his accession he sought to revive traditional Roman religion, and the church therefore calls him "Julian the Apostate."
Leviticus 23
[Bible]Leviticus 23 sets out Israel's appointed feasts in order: the Sabbath, Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the day of the firstfruits sheaf, the feast held fifty days later, and the seventh-month observances of the blowing of trumpets, the Day of Atonement, and the Feast of Tabernacles.
Children's Sunday
[Feasts & Seasons]Children's Sunday is a Sunday set apart for blessing children and reflecting on the responsibility of passing the faith on to the next generation. It is also known as Flower Sunday. Korean churches usually observe it on the first Sunday of May, just before Korea's Children's Day.
William Tyndale
[People]William Tyndale (c. 1494–1536) was an English reformer and Bible translator. He produced the first printed New Testament translated into English from the original Greek and was executed on charges of heresy.
Francis Schaeffer
[People]Francis Schaeffer (1912–1984) was an American Presbyterian minister and Christian apologist (one who explains and defends the rationality of the Christian faith). In 1955 he and his wife, Edith, founded the L'Abri community in Switzerland.
Christian Education Sunday
[Christian Life]Christian Education Sunday is a Sunday on which a church reflects on its ministries of faith education, including the church school, prays for teachers and students, and renews its commitment to this work.
Seraph
[Bible]The seraphim are six-winged heavenly beings who, in the vision of Isaiah 6, stand above the throne of God and cry "Holy" three times. The singular is seraph; the Hebrew plural form seraphim is also commonly used.
Alice Rebecca Appenzeller
[People]Alice Rebecca Appenzeller (1885–1950) was an American Methodist missionary and educator. The daughter of Henry Appenzeller, she was born in Seoul and served as principal of Ewha Haktang and president of Ewha Womans College, laying the foundations of higher education for women in Korea.
Isaiah 43:18–19
[Bible Verses]Isaiah 43:18–19 is God's declaration, "Remember ye not the former things… Behold, I will do a new thing," together with the promise to make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert. The passage is very frequently used as a motto for the new year and for new beginnings. The central interpretive question is what "the former things" and "a new thing" refer to.
Søren Kierkegaard
[People]Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855) was a Danish philosopher and Christian thinker. He regarded faith as a decision the individual makes before God, and he criticized the formalized state church. He is often called a forerunner of existentialism.
Robert Estienne
[People]Robert Estienne (c. 1503–1559) was a French printer and classical scholar. In 1551 he became the first to number the verses of the Greek New Testament, and he is known for laying the foundation of the chapter-and-verse system used in the Bible today.
John Wimber
[People]John Wimber (1934–1997) was an American pastor and musician. He is regarded as the founder of the Vineyard Movement and became widely known for "power evangelism," which emphasized signs and wonders, divine healing, and the gifts of the Holy Spirit.
Paik Nak-chun
[People]Paik Nak-chun (白樂濬, 1895–1985), also known as George Paik, was a Korean church historian, educator, and politician. His English-language doctoral dissertation on the history of Protestant missions in Korea was later published in Korean as *Hanguk Gaesingyosa* (History of Korean Protestantism). He served as president of Yonhi University, as South Korea's second Minister of Education, and as Speaker of the House of Councillors.
Seniors' Sunday
[Christian Life]Seniors' Sunday, also called Respect for the Aged Sunday, is a Sunday set apart to honor and bless the older members of a congregation and to reflect on life and faith in old age.
Servant (Bible)
[Bible]In the Bible, a servant is a person bound to serve another. The term can refer to the institution of slavery in the Old Testament, and it is also used in a religious sense for those who serve God and for the servanthood of Jesus Christ.
Mary Leyburn Junkin
[People]Mary Leyburn Junkin (1866–1952) was an American Southern Presbyterian missionary. With her husband, William Junkin (known in Korea as Jeon Wi-ryeom), she went to Korea in 1892 as a member of the "Seven Pioneers," the first missionary party the Southern Presbyterian Church sent to Korea, and served in Seoul, Gunsan, and Jeonju.
John Stott
[People]John R. W. Stott (1921–2011) was an English Anglican priest, preacher, and author. A leading figure in the worldwide evangelical movement of the twentieth century, he led the drafting of the Lausanne Covenant in 1974.
Orphan
[Bible]In the Bible, an orphan is a child who has lost his or her father and has no one to provide protection. Together with the widow and the stranger, the orphan is repeatedly named as one of the vulnerable whom God cares for in a special way and whom the community is obligated to protect.
George Müller
[People]George Müller (1805–1898) was a Prussian-born evangelist who ministered in Bristol, England. He ran his orphanages on the principle of relying on prayer alone, without soliciting support, and cared for more than 10,000 orphans. He was also an early leader of the Plymouth Brethren.