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• Gabriel

  [Bible]

  Gabriel is an angel of God named in the Book of Daniel and the Gospel of Luke. He explained the meaning of visions to Daniel and announced the births of sons to Zacharias and to Mary.

• Mount Hermon

  [Bible]

  Mount Hermon is a high mountain north of the upper Jordan River, at the southern end of the Anti-Lebanon range. In the Old Testament it appears as the northern boundary of the land Israel possessed, and it is well known from "the dew of Hermon" in Psalm 133.

• Adoption

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  Adoption is a theological term for the grace by which people who were not by nature children of God are received as God's children through Jesus Christ and obtain the rights of heirs.

• Psalm 68

  [Bible]

  Psalm 68 is a hymn of praise that portrays God, who led His people through the wilderness, marching from Mount Sinai to His sanctuary. It calls the nations to praise the God who cares for the fatherless and widows and scatters His enemies.

• Jeremiah 8

  [Bible]

  Jeremiah 8 indicts Judah for its idolatry and refusal to repent, announces the coming judgment, and then laments deeply over the wounded people.

• Constantin von Tischendorf

  [People]

  Constantin von Tischendorf (1815–1874) was a nineteenth-century German textual critic of the New Testament. At St. Catherine's Monastery on Mount Sinai he found the Codex Sinaiticus, a fourth-century Greek manuscript of the Bible, and made it known to the world.

• Kerygma

  [Bible]

  Kerygma is a Greek word meaning "proclamation" or "that which is proclaimed." In the New Testament it refers to the apostles' proclamation of the gospel, centered on the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

• Adullam

  [Bible]

  Adullam was a Canaanite and later Judahite town in the lowland (the low hill country, or Shephelah) of Judah. It is best known as the site of the "cave of Adullam," where David hid from Saul.

• Shadrach

  [People]

  Shadrach, originally named Hananiah, is a man of Judah in the Book of Daniel. One of Daniel's three friends, he refused with Meshach and Abednego to bow down to a golden image. The three were cast into a fiery furnace and came out alive.

• Nehemiah 1:4

  [Bible Verses]

  A verse recounting how Nehemiah, on hearing that the wall of Jerusalem had been broken down, wept, mourned, fasted, and prayed for many days. It is frequently cited as an example of prayer that takes a community's suffering as one's own, and of the preparation that precedes action.

• Ucal

  [People]

  Ucal is an Old Testament figure named in Proverbs 30:1, together with Ithiel, as one to whom Agur delivered his sayings. He appears only once in the Bible, and nothing is known of his life.

• 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.

• 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.

• Solidarity for Church Reform

  [Institutions]

  Solidarity for Church Reform (Gaehyeok Yeondae) is a South Korean Protestant Christian civic organization founded in November 2002 to pursue the reform of the Korean church. It is known for its campaign against hereditary church succession and for its counseling work on church disputes.

• Psalm 46:10

  [Bible Verses]

  Psalm 46:10 records God's declaration, "Be still, and know that I am God." The verse is often used as a text for quiet meditation and waiting on God, though some point out that in context it is a command to the warring nations to cease.

• Jonah 4:2

  [Bible Verses]

  In this verse Jonah, angered that Nineveh has been spared, tells God why he had fled. The verse is frequently discussed for its irony, since Jonah turns the confession of God's grace from Exodus 34 into grounds for complaint, and for its statement that God "repentest thee of the evil."

• Epaenetus

  [People]

  Epaenetus was a Christian whom Paul greeted in Romans 16:5, calling him "my wellbeloved" and the "firstfruits" of Asia unto Christ.

• Susanna

  [People]

  Susanna is a woman named once in Scripture, in Luke 8:3. She was one of the women who accompanied Jesus and the Twelve and ministered to them out of their own substance.

• Bitumen

  [Bible]

  Bitumen is a black, sticky, naturally occurring asphalt substance found in the earth. In the Bible it served as a waterproofing agent and adhesive for Noah's ark, the Tower of Babel, and the ark of bulrushes in which the infant Moses was placed.

• 2 Samuel 13

  [Bible]

  2 Samuel 13 recounts how Amnon, David's firstborn son, violates his half-sister Tamar, and how Tamar's brother Absalom kills Amnon two years later and flees to Geshur.