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Proverbs 12
[Bible]Proverbs 12 is a 28-verse chapter within the "Proverbs of Solomon" section. It contrasts the righteous with the wicked and the wise with the foolish, with particular attention to the power of speech and the value of diligence.
Jude 1
[Bible]Jude 1 is the only chapter of the Epistle of Jude. It warns against false teachers who have crept into the church, comparing them with examples of judgment from the Old Testament, urges believers to hold fast to the faith, and closes with a doxology.
Exodus 21:23-25
[Bible Verses]Known as the law of retaliation, this passage calls for repayment of "life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth." Although often misunderstood as encouraging revenge, it is generally interpreted as a law that originally limited punishment to a measure proportionate to the injury. It is also well known as the saying that Jesus quoted and went beyond in the Sermon on the Mount.
Transfer of Membership
[Christian Life]Transfer of membership is the procedure by which a church member's record is moved from one church to another when the member leaves one congregation for another. The term also refers to the certificate, or letter of transfer, that the original church issues for this purpose.
One-to-One Discipleship
[Christian Life]One-to-one discipleship is a method of spiritual nurture in which an experienced believer is paired with another church member to study the Bible together over a set period using a prescribed curriculum, with the aim of establishing the foundations of the Christian faith.
Song of Hannah
[Bible]The Song of Hannah is Hannah's prayer of praise recorded in 1 Samuel 2:1–10. Offered after she dedicated her son Samuel at the sanctuary in Shiloh, it celebrates the God who lifts up the lowly.
Jonah
[Bible]The Book of Jonah is the fifth of the twelve Minor Prophets of the Old Testament. It tells the story of the prophet Jonah, who flees from God's command but eventually proclaims judgment against Nineveh; when Nineveh repents, God relents from the disaster He had threatened.
Medical Missions
[Christian Life]Medical missions is a form of Christian mission in which the sick are cared for through medical practice as a means of proclaiming the gospel or living out the Christian faith. In Korea, Protestantism is so closely tied to medical missions that it can be said to have begun with the hospital work of its early missionaries.
Incident at Antioch
[Bible]The Incident at Antioch is an event recorded in Galatians 2:11–14. In Syrian Antioch, Paul publicly rebuked Peter (Cephas) for withdrawing from table fellowship with Gentile believers.
Adriel
[People]Adriel was an Israelite of the time of King Saul, the son of Barzillai the Meholathite. He married Merab, Saul's elder daughter, who had been promised to David.
Pilate's Wife
[People]Pilate's wife was the wife of Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor who presided over the trial of Jesus. She appears only in Matthew 27:19, where, because of a dream, she sent word to her husband to have nothing to do with "that just man."
Rimmon
[Bible]Rimmon is the name of a god worshiped in Damascus, the capital of Aram. The name appears in 2 Kings 5, where Naaman, the Aramean commander who had been healed of leprosy, asks pardon for entering the house of Rimmon when he accompanies his king there to worship.
Hiddekel
[Bible]Hiddekel is the name of the third of the four rivers that branch out from the river flowing out of Eden in Genesis 2. It is generally identified with the present-day Tigris River.
Gadara
[Bible]Gadara was a Hellenistic city southeast of the Sea of Galilee. In Matthew 8:28, the "country of the Gadarenes" is the place where Jesus healed two demon-possessed men.
Peshitta
[Bible]The Peshitta is a translation of the Bible into Syriac, a branch of Aramaic. The Eastern churches that carry on the Syriac tradition still use it today as their standard Bible.
Belial
[Bible]Belial is a Hebrew word in the Old Testament meaning "worthlessness" or "wickedness," used mainly in the expression "son (or man) of Belial" to describe a base or wicked person. In the New Testament it appears once, in 2 Corinthians 6:15, as a name for the power of evil opposed to Christ, that is, Satan.
Dominic
[People]Dominic (c. 1170–1221) was a Catholic priest from Castile who founded the Order of Preachers, known as the Dominican Order, which received papal approval in 1216. The Catholic Church venerates him as Saint Dominic.
Jeush
[People]Jeush was a son of Esau by his wife Aholibamah. Genesis 36 records him as one of the chiefs of Edom.
Sela-hammahlekoth
[Bible]Sela-hammahlekoth is the name of a rock in the wilderness of Maon where David, pursued by Saul, narrowly escaped capture. It appears only once, in 1 Samuel 23:28.
Predestination and Free Will
[Controversies]Predestination and free will is a debate over whether salvation depends on God's election or on the human response. Calvinism, followed by Presbyterians, and the Arminian-Wesleyan tradition, followed by Methodists, Holiness churches, and Full Gospel churches, explain the question differently.