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• Mithredath

  [People]

  Mithredath is a Persian personal name found in the Book of Ezra. Two individuals bear this name: the treasurer of King Cyrus, who handed over the temple vessels to Sheshbazzar, and a man who wrote to King Artaxerxes.

• Psalmody

  [Worship & Rites]

  Psalmody refers to songs that take the Old Testament Psalms as their lyrics for congregational singing. The term chiefly designates the metrical psalm, in which a psalm is recast in regular meter and set to a tune, a form especially valued in the Reformed tradition.

• Lucius of Cyrene

  [People]

  Lucius is a figure of the early church named in Acts 13:1 as one of the prophets and teachers of the church at Antioch. He was from Cyrene in North Africa.

• Hospitality

  [Christian Life]

  Hospitality is the practice of welcoming guests or unfamiliar strangers into one's home and church and providing them with food and a place to rest. Scripture commends it as a virtue of believers and as an expression of the life of faith.

• Praetorium

  [Bible]

  The Praetorium was the official residence where a Roman governor stayed and held trials. The Gospels present it as the place where Jesus was interrogated by Pontius Pilate and mocked by soldiers.

• Jacobus Arminius

  [People]

  Jacobus Arminius (1560–1609) was a minister of the Dutch Reformed Church and a professor of theology at Leiden University. His dissent from the Calvinist doctrine of predestination made him the namesake of "Arminianism."

• Charles Wesley

  [People]

  Charles Wesley (1707–1788) was a priest of the Church of England and a hymn writer. With his elder brother John Wesley, he led the Methodist movement, and he is said to have written more than 6,500 hymns during his lifetime.

• Teresa of Ávila

  [People]

  Teresa of Ávila (1515–1582) was a Spanish Catholic nun and mystic (one who seeks direct union with God). She reformed the Carmelite Order, founding the Discalced Carmelites, and wrote The Interior Castle. In 1970 she became the first woman proclaimed a Doctor of the Church.

• Leviticus 15

  [Bible]

  Leviticus 15 is a chapter of purity law addressing the uncleanness caused by bodily discharges and the procedures for cleansing. It sets out, in turn, regulations for a man's running issue, an emission of semen, a woman's menstruation, and a prolonged flow of blood.

• Jun Taek-bu

  [People]

  Jun Taek-bu (1915–2008) was a Korean YMCA leader and a writer on Christian history. He served as general secretary and later as honorary general secretary of the Seoul YMCA. His works include *A History of the Korean YMCA Movement* and *A History of the Development of the Korean Church*, and he was also active in the movement to promote Hangul, the Korean alphabet.

• Missional Church

  [History]

  The missional church is an ecclesiology, and a movement grounded in it, that regards the church as a community sent into the world. It understands mission not as one of the church's many activities but as its very essence. The term gained wide currency through a book published in North America in 1998.

• Psalm 10

  [Bible]

  Psalm 10 is a lament over the reality that the wicked oppress the poor and powerless while God seems far away, and a plea for God to arise and judge on behalf of the fatherless and the oppressed.

• Isaiah 25

  [Bible]

  Isaiah 25 contains a song of praise to the LORD who saves and a prophecy promising a feast that he will prepare for all peoples on Mount Zion, together with the destruction of death. The chapter closes with the downfall of proud Moab.

• Ezekiel 30

  [Bible]

  Ezekiel 30 contains a prophecy that "the day of the LORD" is coming upon Egypt and its allies (vv. 1–19) and a prophecy that God will break Pharaoh's arms and strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon (vv. 20–26).

• Ezekiel 36

  [Bible]

  Ezekiel 36 is a prophecy promising restoration to the desolate mountains of Israel and declaring that God will gather His people for the sake of His holy name, cleanse them, and give them a new spirit and a new heart.

• Zechariah 5

  [Bible]

  Zechariah 5 contains the sixth and seventh of Zechariah's night visions: a flying scroll that punishes thieves and those who swear falsely, and a woman called "Wickedness" who is placed in an ephah basket and carried away to the land of Shinar.

• 1 Peter 2

  [Bible]

  First Peter 2 calls believers a spiritual house built of living stones and a royal priesthood, and exhorts them to follow Christ's example by doing good in the face of worldly authority and suffering.

• Revelation 21

  [Bible]

  Revelation 21 depicts the vision of a new heaven and a new earth and of the holy city, the New Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven. It describes the world brought to completion, in which God dwells with humanity.

• Nepheg

  [People]

  Nepheg is a Levite mentioned in Exodus 6:21. He was a son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, and a brother of Korah and Zichri. Scripture records only his name.

• Zichri

  [People]

  Zichri is a Levite named in the genealogy of Exodus 6. He was a grandson of Kohath, a son of Izhar, and a brother of Korah and Nepheg.