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• Philip the Evangelist

  [People]

  Philip the Evangelist appears in the Acts of the Apostles as one of "the seven" chosen in the early Jerusalem church. He preached the gospel in Samaria and baptized the Ethiopian eunuch. He is distinct from Philip the Apostle.

• Acts 12

  [Bible]

  Acts 12 is the chapter in which King Herod kills James and imprisons Peter, an angel leads Peter out of prison, and Herod is struck down and dies.

• Church Finance

  [Organization & Polity]

  Church finance refers to the work and systems by which a church manages the money it receives through offerings and other sources, prepares and carries out budgets, and closes its accounts. The topic includes church accounting and financial disclosure.

• Medieval Church

  [History]

  The medieval church refers to the Western European church, centered on the pope in Rome, from about the fifth century to about the fifteenth century. Papal power grew and then declined during this period, which formed the background to the sixteenth-century Reformation.

• Isaiah 3

  [Bible]

  Isaiah 3 is a prophecy declaring that God will remove the leaders and provisions on which Judah and Jerusalem relied, and that He will judge both the elders and princes who exploited the poor and the daughters of Zion who adorned themselves in pride.

• Ahaz

  [People]

  Ahaz was a king of the southern kingdom of Judah in the late eighth century BC, the son of Jotham and the father of Hezekiah. Scripture records him as a king who introduced pagan worship and relied on Assyria. He received Isaiah's Immanuel prophecy (Isaiah 7:14).

• Pharaoh Hophra

  [People]

  Pharaoh Hophra was a king of Egypt during the final years of the kingdom of Judah. He is named only once in the Bible, in Jeremiah 44:30, and is known as the Egyptian king on whom Judah relied in its resistance to Babylon.

• Voluntary Poverty

  [Christian Life]

  Voluntary poverty (Korean *cheongbin*, 淸貧, literally "pure poverty") means living in poverty with a pure heart and no desire for wealth. In Christianity, it denotes an attitude of faith that is not bound by possessions but relies on God and embraces a simple life.

• Isaiah 47

  [Bible]

  Isaiah 47 is a prophetic poem announcing the fall of Babylon, portraying the city as a woman dragged down from her throne to sit in the dust. It declares that no one will save Babylon, who was proud and cruel and relied on divination.

• 2 Corinthians 3:18

  [Bible Verses]

  In this verse, Paul describes the ministry of the new covenant and states that believers, beholding the glory of the Lord with unveiled face, are progressively transformed into the same image through the Spirit. It is frequently cited as a key text on sanctification and the restoration of the image of God.

• Tahpanhes

  [Bible]

  Tahpanhes was a city on the eastern side of the Nile Delta in ancient Egypt. After the fall of Judah, Jeremiah and the remnant of Judah fled there to escape the Babylonians, as recorded in the book of Jeremiah.

• 2 Kings 17

  [Bible]

  2 Kings 17 records the fall of Samaria to Assyria and the end of the northern kingdom of Israel under its last king, Hoshea. It explains the reasons for the kingdom's destruction and describes how the foreign peoples resettled in Samaria worshiped the LORD alongside their own gods.

• En-gedi

  [Bible]

  En-gedi is a spring and oasis on the western shore of the Dead Sea. It is a biblical site best known as the place where David hid from Saul and spared Saul's life in a cave.