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• Ecclesiology

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  Ecclesiology is the branch of systematic theology that addresses what the church is (its nature), how the true church is recognized (its marks), who serves in it and how (its offices), and for what purpose it exists (its mission).

• Psalm 37

  [Bible]

  Psalm 37 is a wisdom psalm attributed to David. It urges readers not to fret because of the wicked who seem to prosper, but to trust in the LORD and wait for Him. It repeatedly contrasts the wicked, who wither like grass, with the meek and the righteous, who inherit the land.

• Psalm 99

  [Bible]

  Psalm 99 is a hymn of praise celebrating the reign of the LORD as King. A refrain declaring his holiness occurs three times, and the psalm exalts the God who answered the prayers of Moses, Aaron, and Samuel and who forgave sin.

• Asia Minor

  [Bible]

  Asia Minor is the geographical name for the Anatolian peninsula, bounded by the Black Sea, the Aegean Sea, and the Mediterranean Sea, which corresponds to the Asian portion of modern Türkiye. It was the setting of Paul's missionary journeys and of the seven churches of the Book of Revelation.

• Psalm 150

  [Bible]

  Psalm 150 is the final psalm of the Book of Psalms. It calls everything that has breath to praise God in the sanctuary and in the heavens, with a variety of instruments and with dance, bringing the entire Psalter to its close.

• Isaiah 11

  [Bible]

  Isaiah 11 is a prophecy of a righteous king who will come forth from the stem of Jesse, a kingdom of peace in which wild and domestic animals live together, and the return of scattered Israel.

• Zechariah 6

  [Bible]

  Zechariah 6 contains the vision of the four chariots, the last of Zechariah's eight night visions. It also records the crowning of Joshua the high priest and the proclamation that a man whose name is "the BRANCH" will build the temple of the LORD.

• Zechariah 4

  [Bible]

  Zechariah 4 records the vision of the golden lampstand and the two olive trees, one of Zechariah's night visions. In it, Zerubbabel, who was entrusted with rebuilding the temple, receives the word: "Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts."

• William James Hall

  [People]

  William James Hall (1860–1894) was a Canadian-born physician and medical missionary of the Methodist Episcopal Church (the American Northern Methodists). He opened the Methodist mission in Pyongyang and died of illness contracted while treating the wounded during the First Sino-Japanese War. He was the husband of Rosetta Hall.