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Harriet Beecher Stowe
[People]Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896) was an American author and abolitionist, best known for Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), a novel that indicted slavery. The daughter of the Congregationalist minister Lyman Beecher, she became an Episcopalian later in life.
Joel Osteen
[People]Joel Osteen (born 1963) is an American television preacher and the senior pastor of Lakewood Church, a megachurch in Houston, Texas. He is the author of *Your Best Life Now*, which also became widely known in Korea through its Korean translation.
1 Samuel 10
[Bible]1 Samuel 10 recounts how Samuel privately anoints Saul and foretells three signs, after which Saul is publicly chosen as king before all the people at Mizpeh.
1 Samuel 14
[Bible]1 Samuel 14 recounts how Jonathan and his armor-bearer attack a Philistine garrison at Michmash, leading Israel to victory. It goes on to describe Saul's rash oath imposing a fast, which nearly costs Jonathan his life until the people rescue him, and closes with a record of Saul's wars and family.
Louis Severance
[People]Louis Henry Severance (1838–1913) was an American businessman and Presbyterian layman. He served as treasurer of Standard Oil and is known as the benefactor who funded the construction of Severance Hospital in Seoul.
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.
Susanna Wesley
[People]Susanna Wesley (1669–1742) was an Englishwoman and the mother of John Wesley and Charles Wesley, the leaders of the Methodist movement. Known for the religious instruction of her children and for the prayer meetings she held in the rectory kitchen, she is called the "Mother of Methodism."
Erdmuthe Dorothea von Reuss
[People]Erdmuthe Dorothea von Reuss (1700–1756) was a German countess and hymnwriter of the Pietist era. The first wife of Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf, she managed the household affairs and finances of the Herrnhut community, thereby supporting the Moravian Church.
John 14:12–14
[Bible Verses]A passage in which Jesus says that whoever believes in him will do the works he does and "greater works than these shall he do," and promises to do whatever is asked in his name. Discussion centers on what the "greater works" are and on what it means to pray in Jesus' name.
John 20:23
[Bible Verses]In this verse the risen Jesus gives the Holy Spirit to his disciples and says, "Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them." The Catholic Church cites it as the scriptural basis for the sacrament of penance, while Protestants read it as a declaration of forgiveness through the proclamation of the gospel. Interpretations of the verse therefore differ sharply.
Uzziah
[People]Uzziah was an eighth-century BC king of the southern kingdom of Judah who is called Azariah in 2 Kings. He had a long reign and strengthened the nation, but when he attempted to burn incense in the temple he was struck with leprosy and lived apart until his death.
John 20:22
[Bible Verses]John 20:22 records the risen Jesus breathing on His disciples and saying, "Receive ye the Holy Ghost." The verse is frequently discussed in pneumatology and ecclesiology, both for its relationship to the outpouring of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost in Acts 2 and for the authority to forgive sins that follows it.
Jeconiah
[People]Jeconiah, also called Jehoiachin and Coniah, was one of the last kings of Judah. After reigning for three months, he was taken captive to Babylon and was released from prison thirty-seven years later. His name also appears in the genealogy of Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew.
John Chrysostom
[People]John Chrysostom (c. 347–407) was a Church Father from Antioch who served as Archbishop of Constantinople. His outstanding preaching earned him the epithet "Golden Mouth."
Horeb
[Bible]Horeb is a mountain called "the mountain of God" in the Old Testament. There Moses received his call from the flame of fire in the bush and later received the Law, and there Elijah encountered God.
Ruler of Tens
[Bible]A ruler of tens was a leader placed over a unit of ten Israelites who governed them and judged minor disputes. The office appears in Exodus 18 and Deuteronomy 1.
Threshing Floor
[Bible]A threshing floor was a broad, level area where harvested grain was threshed to separate the kernels from the chaff. In the Bible it can signify abundance, and it also serves as an image of judgment, in which the grain is separated from the chaff.
Fanny Crosby
[People]Fanny Crosby (1820–1915) was a blind American hymn writer and poet. She wrote more than 8,000 hymn texts, including "Blessed Assurance," which appears as No. 288 in the hymnal used by Korean Protestant churches.
Adolf von Harnack
[People]Adolf von Harnack (1851–1930) was a German Protestant theologian and church historian. The author of the *History of Dogma* and *What Is Christianity?*, he is regarded as a leading representative of liberal theology in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Genesis 46
[Bible]Genesis 46 is the chapter in which Jacob leads his entire household down to Egypt and is reunited with Joseph in Goshen. It includes a list of the seventy members of Jacob's house who came into Egypt.