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G. K. Chesterton
[People]G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) was an English journalist, author, and Christian apologist. He is best known for apologetic works such as Orthodoxy and for his Father Brown detective stories. In 1922 he left the Church of England and was received into the Roman Catholic Church.
Judges 6
[Bible]Judges 6 tells how, while Israel lay under Midianite oppression, the angel of the LORD appeared and called Gideon as a deliverer, and how Gideon tore down his father's altar of Baal and twice sought a sign with a fleece.
Joseph (Husband of Mary)
[People]Joseph was the husband of Mary, the mother of Jesus, and a descendant of David who appears in the birth narratives of the Gospels of Matthew and Luke. He is known to have worked as a carpenter in Nazareth and is regarded as the legal father of Jesus.
John 14
[Bible]John 14 is the opening portion of the farewell discourse that Jesus delivered to his disciples at the Last Supper. It contains the promise of a place in the Father's house, the declaration that he is "the way, the truth, and the life," the promise of the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, and the gift of Christ's peace.
Malcolm Fenwick
[People]Malcolm C. Fenwick (1863–1935) was a Canadian independent missionary to Korea. In 1906, at Ganggyeong in South Chungcheong Province, he founded the Church of Christ in Corea (Daehan Gidokgyohoe), the parent body of the Korea Baptist Convention. He is regarded as the founder of the Baptist church in Korea.
Luke 6:37–42
[Bible Verses]In this passage from the Sermon on the Plain, Jesus teaches his hearers not to judge or condemn others but to forgive and to give. It is widely known for the parable of the mote and the beam, and verse 38 is frequently quoted in sermons on giving.
Joshua 24:14-25
[Bible Verses]In this passage Joshua, at Shechem, urges the people of Israel to put away other gods and choose to serve the LORD alone, and then makes a covenant with them. Verse 15, "as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD," is widely quoted as a pledge of household faith.
Pachomius
[People]Pachomius (c. 292–346) was a fourth-century Egyptian monk. He is known as the first to organize cenobitic monasticism, in which a number of monks live together under a single rule.
2 Samuel 16
[Bible]In 2 Samuel 16, David, fleeing from Absalom, receives provisions from Ziba and is cursed by Shimei, while Absalom enters Jerusalem and, on Ahithophel's advice, lies with his father's concubines.
Moon Jae-rin
[People]Moon Jae-rin (文在麟, 1896–1985) was a Korean Presbyterian minister. Raised in Myeongdong Village in North Jiandao, he served as senior pastor of Yongjeong Central Church. After moving to South Korea in 1946, he devoted himself to the lay movement. He was the father of the ministers Moon Ik-hwan and Moon Dong-hwan.
Rod of Moses
[Bible]The rod of Moses was the shepherd's staff that Moses held in his hand when he performed God's miracles, as recorded in Exodus and Numbers. Scripture also calls it "the rod of God."
Virgin Birth
[Doctrine & Theology]The virgin birth is the Christian doctrine that Jesus Christ was conceived by the Holy Spirit, without the involvement of a man, and was born of the Virgin Mary. It is confessed in the Apostles' Creed and the Nicene Creed.
Stem of Jesse
[Bible]The "stem of Jesse" is an image from Isaiah 11:1 in which a shoot springs from the stump of Jesse, the father of David. The expression prophesies an ideal king who will arise from the house of David. Christians generally read it as a messianic prophecy concerning Jesus Christ.
Divinity of Christ
[Doctrine & Theology]The divinity of Christ is the Christian doctrine that Jesus Christ is true God, of the same essence as the Father. Together with the doctrine of his humanity, it lies at the heart of Christology.
Amos
[Bible]Amos is the third of the twelve books of the Minor Prophets in the Old Testament. It preserves the words of the prophet Amos, who was active in the northern kingdom of Israel in the eighth century BC, and it is well known for its call to social justice and its critique of merely formal worship.
Ascension
[Doctrine & Theology]The Ascension is the event in which the risen Jesus Christ, after appearing to his disciples for forty days following his resurrection, was taken up into heaven, as well as the doctrine concerning that event. It is confessed in the Apostles' Creed and commemorated in the liturgical calendar on Ascension Day.
Jacob's Ladder
[Bible]Jacob's Ladder is the dream Jacob had in Genesis 28 while traveling to Haran to escape his brother Esau. In the dream, angels ascended and descended on a ladder that reached to heaven, and God gave Jacob a promise.
Patristics
[Doctrine & Theology]Patristics is the theological discipline that studies the lives, writings, and thought of the Church Fathers, the theologians and leaders of the early church. It is usually treated as a branch of church history (historical theology).
Mount Sinai
[Bible]Mount Sinai is the mountain where Moses received God's call and where Israel received the Ten Commandments and the law and entered into covenant with God. Scripture also calls it Mount Horeb.
Martin Luther
[People]Martin Luther (1483–1546) was a German theologian and monk. In 1517 he launched the Reformation with his Ninety-five Theses, a movement that became the starting point of Protestantism.