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• 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.

• Forms of Church Government

  [Christian Life]

  Forms of church government classify church organization according to who holds decision-making and disciplinary authority in the church. They are commonly divided into episcopal, presbyterian, and congregational polity.

• 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.

• Religious Order

  [Organization & Polity]

  A religious order is a community of men or women religious who live under a common rule, take vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, and pray together. Religious orders exist mainly in the Catholic Church, the Orthodox Church, and the Anglican Communion.

• Gladys Aylward

  [People]

  Gladys Aylward (1902–1970) was an English-born independent missionary. She evangelized and cared for orphans in Shanxi Province, China, and is known for leading more than one hundred orphans across the mountains to safety during the Second Sino-Japanese War.

• Esarhaddon

  [People]

  Esarhaddon was a king of Assyria who succeeded Sennacherib after Sennacherib was murdered by his sons. He is mentioned briefly by name in 2 Kings, Isaiah, and Ezra.

• Living Stone

  [Bible]

  "Living stone" is a metaphor in 1 Peter 2:4–5 that refers both to Jesus Christ and to those who believe in him. It describes believers as stones built upon Christ into a "spiritual house."

• Job 19

  [Bible]

  Job 19 is Job's reply to Bildad's second speech. Job laments that he has been abandoned by his friends and by God, yet he also confesses, "I know that my redeemer liveth," expressing his hope that he will ultimately see God.

• Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil

  [Bible]

  The tree of the knowledge of good and evil is the tree in the midst of the Garden of Eden in Genesis 2–3 whose fruit God commanded Adam not to eat, but which Adam and Eve ate.

• Cursing of the Fig Tree

  [Bible]

  The cursing of the fig tree is an event in which Jesus, after entering Jerusalem, cursed a fig tree that was full of leaves but bore no fruit, after which the tree withered. It is recorded in Mark 11 and Matthew 21.

• Tree of Life

  [Bible]

  The tree of life stood in the midst of the Garden of Eden in Genesis and symbolizes the life that God gives. Proverbs uses the phrase figuratively, and the tree reappears in the New Jerusalem in Revelation.

• Fruit of the Knowledge of Good and Evil

  [Bible]

  The fruit of the knowledge of good and evil is the fruit of the "tree of the knowledge of good and evil," which stood in the midst of the Garden of Eden. God commanded that it not be eaten, and Adam and Eve's eating of it is read in Scripture as the beginning of humanity's fall.

• Eating of the Forbidden Fruit

  [Bible]

  The eating of the forbidden fruit is the event recorded in Genesis 3 in which Adam and Eve ate the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, which God had forbidden, and were driven out of the Garden of Eden. Christianity understands it as the beginning of the fall of humanity.

• Sycamore Fig

  [Bible]

  The sycamore fig is a tree of the fig family that grows in the warm lowlands of Egypt and Palestine. In the Bible it appears as the tree Amos tended and as the tree Zacchaeus climbed to see Jesus.

• The Fall

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  The Fall is the Christian doctrine concerning the event in which the first humans, Adam and Eve, disobeyed God's command, so that sin and death entered the human race, and concerning the condition into which humanity came as a result.

• River of the Water of Life

  [Bible]

  The river of the water of life is the clear river in Revelation 22 that flows from the throne of God and of the Lamb through the New Jerusalem. Drawing on the river of Eden and the river of Ezekiel's temple vision, it serves as an image of the life that God gives.

• River of the Water of Life

  [Bible]

  The river of the water of life is the river described in Revelation 22 as flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb and watering the New Jerusalem. Together with Ezekiel's vision in Ezekiel 47 of a river flowing from the temple, it is read as a symbol of the life that God gives.

• Deborah, Rebekah's Nurse

  [People]

  Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, is a figure in the Book of Genesis who died while Jacob's household was staying at Bethel. She was buried beneath an oak below Bethel, and the tree was named Allon-bachuth.

• Garden of Eden

  [Bible]

  The Garden of Eden is the garden in which, according to Genesis 2–3, God placed the first human being he created. It contained the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and it is the setting of the account of humanity's fall.

• Matthew 21:21–22

  [Bible Verses]

  A passage in which Jesus, responding to disciples astonished that the fig tree had withered, speaks of the power of undoubting faith and of prayer. It is frequently cited as a basis for answered prayer, and interpreters differ over whether "whatsoever" should be understood as an unconditional promise.