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• Psalm 143

  [Bible]

  Psalm 143 is a lament of David in which the psalmist, pursued by an enemy and worn down, appeals to God's righteousness and lovingkindness for an answer, for deliverance, and for guidance in the way of doing the Lord's will.

• Psalm 121

  [Bible]

  Psalm 121 is one of the Songs of Ascents, an eight-verse poem that confesses that help comes from the LORD, who made heaven and earth, and celebrates him as the keeper who neither slumbers nor sleeps.

• Psalm 130

  [Bible]

  Psalm 130 is one of the Songs of Ascents, an eight-verse psalm in which the psalmist cries to God out of the depths, confesses that forgiveness of sin is found with God, waits for the Lord, and then urges all Israel to hope in the LORD.

• Jeremiah 4

  [Bible]

  Jeremiah 4 urges Israel to return to God and circumcise their hearts, then depicts an invasion from the north and the desolation of the land of Judah, recording the lament of the prophet who witnesses it.

• Ezekiel 47

  [Bible]

  A chapter in Ezekiel's vision of the new temple in which water flowing from beneath the temple threshold grows into an ever-deepening river that brings life to the land and the sea. The chapter then sets the boundaries of the land to be divided among the twelve tribes of Israel.

• Hosea 2

  [Bible]

  Hosea 2 rebukes Israel for following Baal, likening the nation to an unfaithful wife, and pronounces judgment on her. It then promises that God will lead her into the wilderness, take her again as his wife, and call her "my people."

• Acts 12

  [Bible]

  Acts 12 is the chapter in which King Herod kills James and imprisons Peter, an angel leads Peter out of prison, and Herod is struck down and dies.

• 1 Corinthians 10

  [Bible]

  First Corinthians 10 warns against idolatry, holding up the failures of Israel in the wilderness as an example. It then declares that believers cannot partake of both the cup of the Lord and the cup of devils, and on the question of food offered to idols, it sets forth the conscience of one's neighbor and the glory of God as the guiding standards.

• 2 Corinthians 8

  [Bible]

  2 Corinthians 8 is the chapter in which Paul holds up the generous giving of the churches of Macedonia as an example, urges the Corinthian church to complete the collection for the saints that it had begun a year earlier, and sends Titus and two brothers to Corinth.

• 2 Corinthians 5

  [Bible]

  2 Corinthians 5 is the chapter in which Paul speaks of the earthly body that will be dissolved and of the hope of an eternal house in heaven, and proclaims the new creation in Christ and the ministry of reconciling people to God.

• Galatians 4

  [Bible]

  The fourth chapter of Galatians, in which Paul uses the analogy of an underage heir who differs nothing from a servant and the allegory of Hagar and Sarah to argue that believers are not servants under the law but sons of God who inherit the promise.

• Jaalam

  [People]

  Jaalam was a son of Esau and his wife Aholibamah, an Old Testament figure recorded in Genesis 36 as one of the chiefs (dukes) of Edom.

• Adoniram

  [People]

  Adoniram, the son of Abda, was an Israelite official who supervised the levy (forced labor conscripted by the state) under David, Solomon, and Rehoboam. He was stoned to death by the people of Israel early in Rehoboam's reign.

• Ishuah

  [People]

  Ishuah was a son of Asher and a grandson of Jacob. He is an Old Testament figure who appears by name only, in the list of Jacob's family who went down to Egypt (Genesis 46) and in the genealogy of the tribe of Asher (1 Chronicles 7).

• Sarah Thistlethwaite

  [People]

  Sarah Thistlethwaite (1877–1937) was the wife of Charles Parham, an early leader of the American Pentecostal movement. She joined her husband in itinerant evangelism, led the Apostolic Faith movement after his death, and compiled his biography.

• Anna Reinhart

  [People]

  Anna Reinhart (c. 1484–1538) was a native of Zurich, Switzerland, and the wife of the Reformer Ulrich Zwingli. Her marriage to Zwingli, made public in 1524, is known as an early instance of clerical marriage during the Reformation.

• Priest

  [Church Offices]

  A priest is one of the three holy orders in Anglicanism, alongside bishop and deacon, and is an ordained minister who presides at the Eucharist and cares for the church. Priests are commonly addressed as "Father," and unlike Roman Catholic priests, who observe celibacy, Anglican priests may marry.

• Catechumenate (Hakseup)

  [Worship & Rites]

  The catechumenate is the stage before baptism in which a person learns the foundations of the faith and, after an examination, is received as a catechumen. In Korean Protestantism, where it is called hakseup, it is practiced chiefly in Presbyterian churches.

• Revival Meeting

  [Worship & Rites]

  A revival meeting is a special series of gatherings held over several consecutive days to rekindle faith that has grown stagnant. It is also called a spiritual revival meeting. In Korea, revival meetings developed as an offshoot of Bible study gatherings known as Bible conferences (sagyeonghoe).

• Holy Spirit

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  The Holy Spirit is the Holy Spirit whom Christianity confesses, together with the Father and the Son, as one person of the triune God. An older English name is the Holy Ghost.