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Synagogue of Satan
[Bible]The "synagogue of Satan" is an expression found in Revelation 2:9 and 3:9. It refers to the gathering of those who "say they are Jews" and who slandered and harassed the churches in Smyrna and Philadelphia.
Richard Baxter
[People]Richard Baxter (1615–1691) was an English Puritan minister and writer. He is known for his pastoral ministry of household visitation and catechetical instruction in the parish of Kidderminster and for his book The Reformed Pastor.
Matthew Henry
[People]Matthew Henry (1662–1714) was an English Nonconformist Presbyterian minister and biblical commentator. He wrote the *Exposition of the Old and New Testaments*, commonly known as *Matthew Henry's Commentary*, which is regarded as a classic of devotional commentary.
William Perkins
[People]William Perkins (1558–1602) was an English Puritan theologian and preacher of the Elizabethan era. He taught and preached at Cambridge and is often called "the father of Puritanism."
John Owen
[People]John Owen (1616–1683) was an English Puritan theologian and pastor. A leading representative of the Congregationalists (Independents), he served as vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford. He is widely known for his works on sanctification, the life of growing in holiness, such as *The Mortification of Sin*.
George Fox
[People]George Fox (1624–1691) was an English itinerant preacher who founded the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as the Quakers. He emphasized the "Inner Light" received without the mediation of clergy, silent worship, and pacifism.
William Booth
[People]William Booth (1829–1912) was an English former Methodist minister who, together with his wife Catherine Booth, founded The Salvation Army and served as its first General.
Isaac Watts
[People]Isaac Watts (1674–1748) was an English Congregational minister, hymn writer, and theologian. The author of about 750 hymns, he is known as the "Father of English Hymnody."
Billy Sunday
[People]Billy Sunday (1862–1935) was an American revivalist and former professional baseball player. A Presbyterian minister, he is known for holding large-scale revival campaigns in major American cities in the early twentieth century and for his leading role in the temperance movement.
Charles Finney
[People]Charles Finney (1792–1875) was an American Presbyterian and Congregationalist minister and revivalist. He is regarded as a leading figure of the Second Great Awakening, and he introduced and popularized the "New Measures" in revival meetings. He also served as president of Oberlin College.
Bill Bright
[People]Bill Bright (1921–2003) was an American evangelist who founded the student ministry Campus Crusade for Christ (CCC) in 1951. He also wrote the evangelistic booklet The Four Spiritual Laws and produced the film Jesus.
Adoniram Judson
[People]Adoniram Judson (1788–1850) was an American Baptist missionary. Working in Burma (present-day Myanmar) for nearly forty years beginning in 1813, he produced the first complete translation of the Bible into Burmese, and his work was the catalyst for the formation of an American Baptist foreign mission organization.
Oral Roberts
[People]Oral Roberts (1918–2009) was an American Pentecostal and charismatic healing evangelist. He became widely known through his tent meetings and television broadcasts, and he founded Oral Roberts University. In Korean Protestantism he is regarded as a major influence on David Yonggi Cho.
Kenneth Hagin
[People]Kenneth Hagin (1917–2003) was an American charismatic preacher. He is regarded as a pioneer of the Word of Faith movement, which emphasizes faith and spoken confession, and he founded Rhema Bible Training Center.
Charles Parham
[People]Charles Fox Parham (1873–1929) was an American preacher and itinerant evangelist. As the first to systematize speaking in tongues as the evidence of baptism in the Holy Spirit, he is regarded as an early leader of the Pentecostal movement.
J. Gresham Machen
[People]John Gresham Machen (1881–1937) was an American Presbyterian New Testament scholar. He criticized liberal theology in *Christianity and Liberalism* and founded Westminster Theological Seminary and the Orthodox Presbyterian Church.
Charles Hodge
[People]Charles Hodge (1797–1878) was an American Presbyterian theologian. He taught at Princeton Theological Seminary for more than half a century and wrote a three-volume Systematic Theology, becoming the leading representative of "Princeton Theology."
Francis Schaeffer
[People]Francis Schaeffer (1912–1984) was an American Presbyterian minister and Christian apologist (one who explains and defends the rationality of the Christian faith). In 1955 he and his wife, Edith, founded the L'Abri community in Switzerland.
Reinhold Niebuhr
[People]Reinhold Niebuhr (1892–1971) was an American Protestant theologian and Christian ethicist. He is known for "Christian realism," an approach that pursued social justice while squarely confronting human sinfulness and collective self-interest.
Jim Elliot
[People]Jim Elliot (1927–1956) was an American Protestant missionary. In 1956 he and four fellow missionaries were killed in Ecuador while attempting to bring the gospel to the Waorani people (formerly called the "Auca").