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Jaalam
[People]Jaalam was a son of Esau and his wife Aholibamah, an Old Testament figure recorded in Genesis 36 as one of the chiefs (dukes) of Edom.
J. R. R. Tolkien
[People]J. R. R. Tolkien (1892–1973) was an English philologist and author best known for *The Hobbit* and *The Lord of the Rings*. A devout Roman Catholic, he is known for having influenced C. S. Lewis's conversion to Christianity.
Kim Yang-seon
[People]Kim Yang-seon (金良善, 1907–1970) was a Korean Presbyterian minister, church historian, and archaeologist. He was a professor at Soongsil University and the founder of the Korean Christian Museum at Soongsil University.
Genesis 27
[Bible]Genesis 27 is the chapter in which Jacob, through a deception devised by Rebekah, receives the blessing that the aged Isaac intended for his firstborn son, Esau, and then prepares to leave home to escape Esau's anger.
Genesis 30
[Bible]Genesis 30 recounts how Jacob's wives, Rachel and Leah, compete to bear sons, even giving their maidservants to Jacob, so that several children are born, including Joseph. It also tells how Jacob settles his wages with Laban and grows wealthy through his flocks.
David Yonggi Cho
[People]David Yonggi Cho (1936–2021) was a Pentecostal pastor. He founded Yoido Full Gospel Church, which began in 1958 as a tent church in Daejo-dong, Seoul, and built it into the largest church in the world.
Birthright
[Bible]The birthright is the firstborn son's right of precedence in inheritance and in representing the family, received from his father. It is best known from Genesis, where Esau sold his birthright to his younger brother Jacob for a bowl of stew.
Nethaniah
[People]Nethaniah was the son of Elishama, a member of the royal family in the final years of the kingdom of Judah. He was the father of Ishmael, who assassinated Gedaliah, the governor appointed by Babylon. Scripture mentions him only in connection with his son's name.
John 10:30
[Bible Verses]John 10:30 records the words Jesus spoke to the Jews at the Feast of Dedication: "I and my Father are one." Because the verse speaks directly of the relationship between the Father and the Son, it is frequently cited both to explain and to refute the doctrine of the Trinity, and its interpretation has long been debated.
Issachar
[People]Issachar was a son of Jacob and Leah. His name became the name of the tribe of Issachar, one of the twelve tribes of Israel.
Song of Zechariah
[Worship & Rites]The Song of Zechariah (Luke 1:68-79) is the hymn that Zechariah, the father of John the Baptist, uttered when he was filled with the Holy Spirit after his son's birth. It is also called the "Benedictus," from its first Latin word.
Song of Zechariah
[Bible]The Song of Zechariah is a hymn recorded in Luke 1:68-79. Filled with the Holy Spirit on the day of his son's circumcision, Zechariah, the father of John the Baptist, praises God's salvation and prophesies concerning his son's mission.
Manoah
[People]Manoah is a man of the tribe of Dan in the Old Testament Book of Judges and the father of the judge Samson. He and his wife received from the angel of the Lord the announcement of their son's birth.
Genesis 22:12-14
[Bible Verses]Genesis 22:12-14 is the passage in which God stops Abraham as he is about to offer Isaac and has him offer a ram in his son's place. It gives rise to the name "Jehovah-jireh" ("the LORD will provide"). The passage is frequently cited and preached as a text about the testing of faith and as a foreshadowing of substitutionary atonement.
1 Kings 21
[Bible]Ahab, king of the northern kingdom of Israel, and his queen Jezebel have Naboth the Jezreelite put to death on false charges and seize his vineyard. Elijah pronounces judgment on the house of Ahab, and when Ahab humbles himself, the calamity is deferred to his son's days.
Acts of the Apostles
[Bible]The Acts of the Apostles is the fifth book of the New Testament. It records how, after the ascension of Jesus Christ and with the coming of the Holy Spirit, the church began in Jerusalem and spread as far as Rome.
The Sabbath and the Lord's Day
[Controversies]A discussion of whether Christians should observe the seventh-day (Saturday) Sabbath or the first-day (Sunday) Lord's Day, and whether the Lord's Day should be kept in the manner of the Old Testament Sabbath.
The Church and Politics
[Controversies]The question of how the church and individual Christians should engage in politics. Views differ on the meaning of the separation of church and state, the boundary between preaching and political speech, and the proper forms of the church's social engagement.
The March First Movement and Christianity
[History]The March First Movement and Christianity examines the role Protestantism played in Korea's March First Movement of 1919. Protestants accounted for 16 of the 33 National Representatives, and churches and Christian schools served as bases from which the independence demonstrations spread across the country.
Schisms in the Korean Presbyterian Church
[History]The schisms in the Korean Presbyterian Church were the divisions of the once-unified Presbyterian Church in Korea during the 1950s into the Kosin, Kijang, Tonghap, and Hapdong bodies. The disputes concerned the handling of Shinto shrine worship, views of Scripture, and membership in the World Council of Churches (WCC). Further divisions into numerous denominations followed.