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• Hagia Sophia

  [History]

  Hagia Sophia is a building in Istanbul, Türkiye (formerly Constantinople). Dedicated in 537 as the cathedral of the Eastern Roman Empire, it became a mosque in 1453 and a museum in 1934, and was converted back into a mosque in 2020.

• Textual Sermon

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  A textual sermon is a method of preaching that takes a short passage of Scripture (usually one or two verses) as its text and draws the sermon's main points from the words and structure of that passage.

• Hananiah (False Prophet)

  [People]

  Hananiah, son of Azur of Gibeon, is a prophet who appears in Jeremiah 28. During the reign of Zedekiah he prophesied that the yoke of Babylon would be broken within two years, and he broke the yoke Jeremiah was wearing. He died that same year, as Jeremiah had declared.

• Baptism

  [Worship & Rites]

  Baptism is a rite in which water is used to signify that a person has come to faith in Jesus Christ and become a member of the church community. Most Protestants count it, together with the Lord's Supper, as one of two sacraments.

• Sacrament

  [Worship & Rites]

  A sacrament is a rite believed to have been instituted by Christ that signifies God's grace through visible signs such as water, bread, and wine. Protestants generally recognize two sacraments: baptism and the Lord's Supper.

• Short-Term Missions

  [Christian Life]

  Short-term missions are trips in which church members travel to domestic or overseas mission fields, for periods ranging from a few days to several weeks and in longer cases one to two years, to assist local churches and to engage in evangelism and service. In Korean churches the practice is also widely known as a "vision trip."

• Son Yang-won

  [People]

  Son Yang-won (1902–1950) was a Korean Presbyterian minister. He was imprisoned for refusing the Japanese colonial authorities' compulsory Shinto shrine worship, and he ministered to people with Hansen's disease at Aeyangwon in Yeosu. He adopted the man who had killed his two sons and was executed during the Korean War.

• Ish-bosheth

  [People]

  Ish-bosheth was a son of Saul who, after Saul's death, was made king over Israel by Abner, the commander of Saul's army, and reigned for about two years. In 1 Chronicles he appears under the name Eshbaal.

• Nergal-sharezer

  [People]

  Nergal-sharezer was a Babylonian official mentioned in Jeremiah 39. When Jerusalem fell, he sat in the middle gate of the city, and he took part in releasing Jeremiah, who had been confined in the court of the prison.

• On

  [Bible]

  On was an ancient Egyptian city. According to Genesis, Poti-pherah, the father of Joseph's wife Asenath, was a priest there. The city is better known by its Greek name, Heliopolis.

• Genealogy of Jesus

  [Bible]

  The genealogy of Jesus is the record of the ancestry of Jesus Christ found in Matthew 1:1-17 and Luke 3:23-38. Matthew traces the line downward from Abraham to Jesus, while Luke traces it upward from Jesus to Adam.

• Assarion

  [Bible]

  The assarion was a small copper coin used in the Roman Empire during the New Testament era. It appears when Jesus cites the price of sparrows to speak of God's care (Matthew 10:29; Luke 12:6).

• Taxation of Clergy

  [Controversies]

  Taxation of clergy is the question of levying income tax on the honoraria received by pastors and other religious workers. In South Korea, taxation of clergy income took effect in January 2018 after a long controversy.

• Third Council of Constantinople

  [History]

  The Third Council of Constantinople was a council held from 680 to 681 in Constantinople, the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire. It declared that Christ possesses both a divine will and a human will, condemned Monothelitism, and is counted as the sixth ecumenical council.

• Second Council of Constantinople

  [History]

  The Second Council of Constantinople was a church council convened in Constantinople in 553 by the Eastern Roman emperor Justinian I. It condemned the so-called "Three Chapters" and reaffirmed the Christology of the Council of Chalcedon. The Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church count it as the fifth ecumenical council.

• Antipope

  [History]

  An antipope is a person who claims to be pope, or who has been set up as pope with the backing of a particular faction, in opposition to the Roman pontiff whom the Catholic Church recognizes as legitimate.

• Succoth

  [Bible]

  Succoth is a Hebrew place name meaning "booths." In the Old Testament it refers both to a town east of the Jordan River and to the place in Egypt that Israel first reached after setting out from Rameses at the Exodus.

• Stadion

  [Bible]

  The stadion is a Greek unit of distance found in the New Testament, measuring about 185 meters. In Revelation it is used to give the dimensions of the New Jerusalem.

• Proverbs 22

  [Bible]

  Proverbs 22 contains the final portion of the collection of Solomon's proverbs (10:1–22:16) and the opening of a new collection, "the words of the wise" (22:17 onward). Its teachings include training children, protecting the poor, and avoiding becoming surety for another's debts.

• Confession of Faith

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  A confession of faith is the act by which Christians declare what they believe, in speech or in writing, or a document formally adopted by a church that sets out what it believes. A brief summary document of this kind is commonly called a creed.